Science news articles about 'natural antibiotics'

... to produce a compound to spread a signal across the colony to start producing their natural antibiotic weapons. The amounts of such signalling material produced are incredibly small. Only micrograms ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- In recent years, scientists have isolated two potent natural antibiotics — platensimycin and platencin — that are highly effective against bacterial infection, including those caused ...

Researchers at University College Cork have used bioengineering to produce a new generation of natural antibiotics that target harmful micro-organisms such as MRSA and the food-borne pathogen, ...

Researchers have used bioengineering to produce a new generation of natural antibiotics that target harmful micro-organisms such as MRSA and the food-borne pathogen, Listeria monocytogenes.

... of ready-to-use cells and enzymes. Bacteria that resist these "front-line" defenses are then dealt with by antimicrobial peptides - a sort of natural antibiotic - which halt their proliferation.

... tested a computer program that can show experimentalists how to change the machinery that bacteria use to make natural antibiotics. The program -- a set of computer rules known as the algorithm "K*" ( ...

... , computer scientists and biochemists have developed and laboratory-tested a computer program that can show experimentalists how to change the machinery that bacteria use to make natural antibiotics.

... plasmodium falciparum, the parasite that causes malaria. Recently other researchers reported that the natural antibiotic fumagillin can stop malaria parasites from growing, possibly by interfering ...

... infected anthrax-causing bacteria become more resistant to a natural antibiotic found in the soil. The new studies now go ... role in us and what goes on around us in nature," he says. "I am convinced of ...