Antibiotic use in farm animals helps mitigate foodborne illness but contributes to antibiotic resistance. Small, bacteria-targeting peptides could solve both problems.

Using a neonatal mouse model, researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have shown that changes in the microbiota of the gut contribute to this dangerous lung injury. The changes occur ...

Every Thanksgiving, Americans eat about 45 million turkeys, but for some, the holiday feast ends in food poisoning.

This research presents nanogels that effectively target P. aeruginosa, achieving 99.9 % inhibition and opening a path to ...

The World Health Organization estimates that 1.27 million people died directly from drug-resistant bacterial strains in 2019 and these strains contributed to 4.95 million deaths. While bacteria ...

Antimicrobial peptides can control pathogens like Salmonella and E. coli — major causes of foodborne diseases — and can also ...

New research into antimicrobial peptides, small chains of amino acids able to damage bacterial cells, shows why some peptides are more effective at doing that and also why some cells are more ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Biomedical Engineering, researchers developed a method to measure the maintenance or loss of antimicrobial peptide (AMP) activity for thousands of ...

Researchers have now developed a streamlined approach to developing artificial antimicrobial peptides. Their strategy, which relies on a computer algorithm that mimics the natural process of evolution ...

Researchers have identified a gut-lung axis driven by intestinal antimicrobial peptide expression and mediated by the intestinal microbiota that is linked to lung injury in newborns. These results ...