Chemists develop a new way to treat antibiotic-resistant infections
Monday, November 5, 2018 - 13:00
in Health & Medicine
With drug-resistant infections on the rise and the development of new antibiotics on the decline, the world could use a new strategy in the fight against increasingly wily bacteria. Now, Stanford chemists report November 2 in the Journal of the American Chemical Society a possible solution: a small molecular attachment that helps conventional antibiotics penetrate and destroy their targets.