All antibiotic resistance

One woman and two men pose in a laboratory.

February 15, 2024

UIC research helps create new antibiotic that evades bacterial resistance 

New drug inspired by images that captured how bacteria block antibiotic activity

Sale of watermelons. Red and juicy watermelon. Attracts insects with its sweetness. Close up By Klymentii, Abobe Stock

June 6, 2023

A compound from fruit flies could lead to new antibiotics

Nature Chemical Biology study reports on peptide’s antibacterial mechanism 

Yury Polikanov and Alexander Mankin

January 19, 2021

Unlocking ‘the shape of water’ in mechanisms of antibiotic resistance

New images first to show water molecule present in drug-resistant bacteria models

May 31, 2019

Most preventive antibiotics prescribed by dentists are unnecessary

UIC study published in JAMA Network Open

Yury Polikanov and Alexander Mankin

April 6, 2018

A new class of antibiotics to combat drug resistance

Newly discovered antibiotic binds to ribosome, disrupts protein synthesis