Ingredients of our daily diet—including caffeine—can influence the resistance of bacteria to antibiotics. This has been shown in a new study by a team of researchers at the Universities of Tübingen ...

The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat The Story of the Penicillin Miracle Eric Lax John Macrae/Henry Holt: 308 pp., $25 The drug that helped win the war - Los Angeles Times ...

The discoveries of penicillin (Penicillium notatum), streptomycin (Streptomyces griseus) and tyrothricin (Bacillus brevis) in the 1940s created the modern pharmaceutical industry and provided a ...

The development of deep-tank fermentation by Pfizer -- which enabled the mass production of penicillin for use in World War II -- was designated a National Historic Chemical Landmark by the ...

But researchers have developed a chemical additive that could give new strength to previously ineffective drugs. In the war against bacteria, antibiotics revitalized with new chemical additive | ZDNET ...

Researchers have found a chemical compound that, when used in conjunction with conventional antibiotics, is effective in destroying biofilms produced by antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria ...

New research has uncovered exactly how the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae has become resistant to the antibiotic penicillin. The same research could also open up MRSA to attack by penicillin ...

Using a novel type of chemical reaction, MIT researchers have shown that they can modify antibiotics in a way that could potentially make them more effective against drug-resistant infections.