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Taking antibiotics back in time

“Recreating such an ancient molecule was exhilarating, akin to bringing dinosaurs or wooly mammoths back to life”

04-Dec-2023 - In today's medical landscape, antibiotics are pivotal in combatting bacterial infections. These potent compounds, produced by bacteria and fungi, act as natural defenses against microbial attacks. A team of researchers delved into the intricate world of glycopeptide antibiotics – a vital resource ...

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Glox Therapeutics Secures £4.3M Seed Funding to Develop Precision Antimicrobials Targeting Drug-resistant Bacteria

Spin-out from the Universities of Glasgow and Oxford

21-Nov-2023 - Glox Therapeutics, a company pioneering the development of precision antibiotic therapies based on naturally occurring bacteriocins, announced it has raised £4.3M in seed funding to develop effective targeted therapeutics against antibiotic-resistant Gram-negative bacteria. The Company will use ...

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Cell-free quest for new antibiotics

A new method combines synthetic biology with artificial intelligence

20-Nov-2023 - The rising resistance of bacteria to antibiotics presents an escalating global health risk. Now, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology have combined synthetic biology and artificial intelligence (AI) to develop a more efficient approach to finding and creating new ...

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Start-up dedicated to developing new antibiotics

Smartbax nominated for Falling Walls award

06-Nov-2023 - It all began with basic research: While conducting laboratory experiments, a team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) came across an active agent against multidrug-resistant bacteria with a fundamental difference to antibiotics developed to date. The researchers have since established a ...

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Small protein, big impact

A small protein acts as a sensitive alarm for bacteria to be alert to antimicrobial peptides

16-Oct-2023 - Nature uses antimicrobial peptides as broad-spectrum antibiotics: They form the first line of defense against invading pathogens. Bacteria, in turn, have developed ways to circumvent these defenses. Microbiologists at the Max Planck Institute in Marburg have investigated how a small protein ...

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Microplate Dx secures £2.5 million to develop rapid diagnostic technology for better antibiotic use

In minutes rather than days to prescribe the optimal antibiotic

13-Sep-2023 - Glasgow diagnostics spinout Microplate Dx has closed a £2.5M seed funding round to develop its point-of-care diagnostic platform which can confirm the presence of bacteria and guide a patient’s doctor to effective treatment by rapidly identifying effective antibiotics to use and which ones to ...

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Researchers decode new antibiotic

Combined attack minimizes resistance development

24-Aug-2023 - More and more bacterial pathogens are developing resistance. There is an increasing risk that common drugs will no longer be effective against infectious diseases. Researchers from the University of Bonn, the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Utrecht University (Netherlands), ...

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Antibiotic ribosomal compounds deciphered

Combating multidrug-resistant bacteria through high-resolution structural imaging

10-Aug-2023 - A European research team led by the Department of Chemistry at the University of Hamburg presents structures of 17 different antibiotic ribosomal compounds with high detail resolution in a study. The knowledge could pave the way for the development of novel antibiotics to combat ...

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Pioneering research projects at the 8th Life Science Pitch Day at the IZB

A total of sixteen teams presented their innovative ideas to almost 50 investors at the Munich start-up center.

18-Jul-2023 - On July 13, 2023, the Munich Innovation and Start-up Center for Biotechnology (IZB) organized the 8th Life Science Pitch Day in cooperation with High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), Leaps by Bayer, and Boehringer Ingelheim, which brought together sixteen biotech start-ups and project teams and almost ...

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New robotics platform for accelerated antibiotic development

Leibniz-HKI and Analytik Jena develop facility for automated testing of drug candidates

19-Jun-2023 - A new robotics platform was inaugurated at the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology (Leibniz-HKI) on Thursday, June 15, 2023, in the presence of Thuringia's State Secretary for Research, Innovation and Economic Development. The highly modular facility serves the ...

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