All antibiotics
March 26, 2025
Lasso-shaped antibiotic co-developed by UIC evades standard drug resistanceSmall peptide corrals many disease-causing bacterial species by binding to ribosomes
July 23, 2024
Dual-action antibiotic could make bacterial resistance nearly impossibleA new drug that disrupts two cellular targets would make it much harder for bacteria to evolve resistance
April 18, 2024
Three scientists named fellows of American Association for the Advancement of ScienceNemat Oliver Keyhani, Alexander Mankin and Deepak Shukla recognized by peers for their biology research
February 15, 2024
UIC research helps create new antibiotic that evades bacterial resistanceNew drug inspired by images that captured how bacteria block antibiotic activity
June 6, 2023
A compound from fruit flies could lead to new antibioticsNature Chemical Biology study reports on peptide’s antibacterial mechanism
October 28, 2021
New ribosome-targeting antibiotic acts against drug-resistant bacteriaStudy published in Nature
May 24, 2021
Can antibiotics treat human diseases in addition to bacterial infections?UIC researchers prove that drugs designed for bacteria have potential to act on human cells
January 19, 2021
Unlocking ‘the shape of water’ in mechanisms of antibiotic resistanceNew images first to show water molecule present in drug-resistant bacteria models
May 31, 2019
Most preventive antibiotics prescribed by dentists are unnecessaryUIC study published in JAMA Network Open
March 20, 2019
UIC researchers find hidden proteins in bacteriaScience overturns longstanding assumption