but antibiotics exist in nature as well. In fact, most of the antibiotics used today are based on compounds scientists have found in nature [1]. To this day, nature still provides some of the most ...

UBC researchers with the Department of Microbiology and Immunology have discovered a mimic of one of "nature's antibiotics" that can be used to coat medical devices to prevent infection and rejection.

Antimicrobial resistance is the ability of microorganisms such as bacteria, fungi or protozoans to grow despite exposure to antimicrobial substances designed to inhibit their growth. Microbes can ...

Antibiotics and antibiotic resistance have most commonly been viewed in the context of human use and effects. However, both have co-existed in nature for millennia. Recently the roles of antibiotics ...

What does this mean for us humans, who have to fight with these new antibiotic resistant strains? Now, say that a few days after your initial infection with S. aureus, you decide to go to the ...