As pathogenic bacteria continue to evolve and find ways to evade common medications, researchers have been racing to develop new antibiotics to avoid a crisis. Reporting in Nature, scientists have now ...

Bacteria draw from an arsenal of weapons to combat the drugs intended to kill them. Among the most prevalent of these weapons are ribosome-modifying enzymes. These enzymes are growing increasingly ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital report that human ribosomes decode messenger RNA (mRNA) 10 times slower than bacterial ribosomes, but do so more accurately. The study “mRNA ...

A new study published in Nature reports on a new antibiotic that binds to the ribosome of bacterial cells and stops drug-resistant pathogens from making mice sick. Co-authored by researchers from the ...

An old antibiotic may provide much-needed protection against multi-drug resistant bacterial infections, according to a new study published May 16 th in the open access journal PLOS Biology by James ...

A new study published in Nature reports on a new antibiotic that binds to the ribosome of bacterial cells and stops drug-resistant pathogens from making mice sick. Co-authored by researchers from the ...

In a recent study in Nature, researchers identified and characterized a broad-spectrum antibiotic, lariocidin (LAR). The antibiotic inhibits bacterial growth by altering protein synthesis in ribosomes ...

As a molecular machine found in the cells of all organisms, the ribosome is responsible for making new proteins. For a number of reasons, this process can fail, leaving the ribosome stalled on the ...

Scientists have found that human ribosomes decode mRNA slower than bacteria, with implications for drug development. Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital revealed that human ribosomes ...

The results of research led by scientists at Harvard Medical School suggest that a natural product antibiotic first isolated back in the 1940s may be effective against potentially lethal, multidrug ...