The antibiotic Halicin was named by MIT researchers after the fictional AI system from the cult sci-fi film 2001: A Space Odyssey. It is an example of how scientific breakthroughs are now imitating ...

Halicin disrupts membranes, therefore narrowing down the ability of bacteria to increase in number and reproduce; crucial in treating antibiotic resistant bacteria such as Clostridium difficile ...

Overall, deaths attributable to antibiotic resistance rose from 1.06 million in 1990 to 1.27 million in 2019 and then fell to 1.14 million in 2021, the team concludes.

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The class of antibiotics called macrolides have been used for decades to treat various bacterial infections. You can tell a macrolide antibiotic because they end in ‘–mycin’.

Halicin disrupts the ability of a microbe to hold an electrochemical gradient across its cell membranes, which makes antibiotic resistance nearly impossible Paulick Report Staff Jun 18, 2024 ...

1 Introduction Since their discovery, antibiotics, have played a crucial role in saving countless lives, and they have become the most effective tools for treating bacterial infections. However, the ...

An antibiotic candidate that Collins’ lab discovered in 2020, halicin, appears to work by a similar mechanism but is specific to Gram-negative bacteria (bacteria with thin cell walls). MRSA is a ...

Scientists say they have developed a new type of antibiotic to treat a bacteria that is resistant to most current antibiotics and kills a large percentage of people with an invasive infection.