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    • Associate Professor Tony Velkov

    Principal Research Fellow, NHMRC Career Development Fellow, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne

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    Health & Medicine

    Into the wild to fight antibiotic resistance

    Antimicrobial resistance is part of the chemical warfare bacteria wage in nature, and that’s where researchers now looking for new clues to overcome it

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    Health & Medicine

    A new weapon in the war against superbugs

    New research is finding ways to beat dangerous superbugs with ‘resistance resistant’ antibiotics, and it could help in our fight against COVID-19 complications

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    Health & Medicine

    The chemical warfare against bacterial superbugs

    Chemically altering old antibiotics once thought too toxic for humans is opening a new front in the fight against antibiotic resistance that is now a global crisis

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