Acurx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACXP) ("Acurx" or the "Company"), a late-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a new class of small molecule antibiotics for difficult-to-treat bacterial ...

Light-activated copper microrobots use single-atom catalysis and peroxide to penetrate biofilms, generate reactive oxygen ...

Antimicrobial resistance is a global issue, making the search for a new generation of antibiotics imperative. Scientists ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has designated Gram-negative ... The strong positive charge of lariocidin, on the other hand, enabled it to enter the bacterial cell directly through the ...

Organisms must adapt to ever-changing environments, otherwise they risk being outcompeted or eliminated. To do this, they have evolved methods for importing DNA from elsewhere and utilizing it for ...

That process led to the group discovering a lasso peptide that exhibited broad-spectrum antibiotic activity and was effective at killing both gram-positive and gram-negative pathogenic bacteria, along ...

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Silver nanoparticles are responsible for disrupting the cell membrane structure, which can generate ... tested against Staphylococcus aureus, a gram-positive bacterium responsible for staph ...

We tested the hypothesis that the bacterial ... flow cell using the LightCycler 480 Instrument II (Roche Sequencing and Life Sciences, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States). DNA extracted from E. coli ...

Bacteriophages, or phages, viruses that selectively target and infect bacteria, have drawn growing attention for their ...