Antibiotics

Health & Medicine
Research
AI joins the fight against superbugs
For the first time, Australian scientists have used AI to make ready-to-use proteins that can kill antibiotic-resistant bacteria

Health & Medicine
Why antibiotics give you thrush and other microbiome mishaps
Antibiotics cause an imbalance between fungi and bacteria in our microbiome. New ways of understanding this imbalance can help protect against serious disease

Sciences & Technology
The vaccine improving the health of Australia's chickens
A new vaccine is protecting one-day-old chicks from a pneumonia-like illness that costs the poultry industry millions of dollars each year

Sciences & Technology
The vaccine improving the health of Australia's chickens
A new vaccine is protecting one-day-old chicks from a pneumonia-like illness that costs the poultry industry millions of dollars each year

Health & Medicine
A new way to manage antibiotic allergies in Australia
Two million Australians self-report an allergy to penicillin – but most actually aren’t allergic – and this can lead to serious public health consequences

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

Health & Medicine
Starving the bacterium that causes pneumonia
By targeting an essential nutrition pathway, researchers hope to develop drug targets against the bacterium that causes pneumonia

Health & Medicine
Podcasts
Why are there so few drugs to treat viruses?
As coronavirus case numbers surge, University of Melbourne experts explain why we have effective drugs for bacterial diseases, but relatively few for combating viruses

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

Sciences & Technology
Getting to know your microbiome better
Research into our gut microbiome – or our ‘second brain’ – has already produced vast amounts of data, but we are only scratching the surface of our own complex ecosystems