A phenolic-rich extract from maple syrup can make disease-causing bacteria more susceptible to common antibiotics, according to new research from McGill University. A maple syrup extract increases the potency of common antibiotics. Image credit: Three-Shots. “Native populations in Canada have long used maple syrup to fight infections. I’ve always been …
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The growth of bacteria can be stimulated by antibiotics, according to a study published in the journal Nature Ecology Evolution. A DNA coverage plot for Escherichia coli following 60 generations (96?h) of growth in the presence and absence of doxycycline: data in the presence (three inner annuli, ‘Dox’) and absence …
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New experimental antibiotics developed by chemists at the University of Connecticut successfully treat methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections. The success is due to their strategy, which found a weakness and exploited it in a way the bacteria should have trouble countering. Stephanie M. Reeve et al. identified two plasmid-borne genes …
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Using a novel approach called syn-BNP (synthetic-bioinformatic natural product) approach, scientists from the Rockefeller and Rutgers Universities have discovered two promising new antibiotics active against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a bacterium that causes infections in different parts of the body and poses a serious threat to millions of people throughout …
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