Drug-resistant bacteria represent a major threat to public health worldwide, and scientists are constantly searching for novel antibiotic compounds. In a recent study, a research team achieved the ...

Antibiotics have long relied on two complementary approaches: the exploitation of natural biosynthetic pathways and the de novo or semisynthetic construction of complex molecular scaffolds.

John C. Sheehan, who in 1957 chemically synthesized penicillin, a feat that had been thought impossible, died March 21 of congestive heart failure at his home in Key Biscayne, Fla. He was 76 years old ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BATTLE CREEK, Mich. (WOOD) — A West Michigan native can be thanked for the creation of synthetic penicillin, which can be used to ...

This is one of the currently active research projects associated with the chemistry and biochemistry department. Learn how you can be involved with research as a Calvin student. Let's go smaller. And ...

Penicillin was discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming in 1928 and until now, how it worked was not fully understood. In this interview, we spoke to Dr. Bartlomiej Salamaga about his latest research that ...

The discovery of antibiotics in 1928 was a major turning point in the history of medicine. For the first time since the dawn of human civilization, doctors had gained access to an extremely powerful ...