Researchers have found a way to make antibiotics more effective against antibiotic-resistant bacteria - also known as 'superbugs. A multi-disciplinary project driven by EMBL Australia researchers at ...

New antibiotics are crucial in the fight against antimicrobial resistance. Assessing the effectiveness of new antibiotics requires standardised high-quality infection models, readily available to ...

Scientists have shown for the first time a link between two types of heart problems and one of the most commonly prescribed classes of antibiotics. Scientists have shown for the first time a link ...

Antibiotics are medications that treat bacterial infections. They achieve this by killing bacteria or slowing their growth. Some common types of antibiotics include penicillin and macrolides. Medical ...

Surprising links between antibiotics and the brain. Source: Iaremenko/iStock We like our stories neat, with good guys in white hats and bad guys in black, but nature scoffs at our binary plot lines.