All antibiotics

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 

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

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

illustration of a DNA double helix

March 20, 2019

UIC researchers find hidden proteins in bacteria

Science overturns longstanding assumption

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

Michael Federle, Researcher of the Year

February 6, 2018

New compound may stop bacteria from causing sickness

UIC research sheds light on Streptococcus bacteria signaling

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