Bacterial Protein Structure Could Aid Development of New Antibiotics Researchers have provided the first close-up glimpse of a protein, called MurJ, which is crucial for building the bacterial cell wall and protecting it from outside attack.
Antibiotic Resistance Just Became More Complex Bacteria that are susceptible to antibiotics can survive when enough resistant cells around them are expressing an antibiotic-deactivating factor.
Scientists Examine Bacterium Found 1,000 Feet Underground Pioneering work being carried out in a cave in New Mexico is changing the understanding of how antibiotic resistance may have emerged.