Life at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Long before COVID-19, a serious pandemic had been lurking inside hospitals and health care centers worldwide multidrug-resistant (MDR) microbial infections, which are caused by bacterial… Read More »A Viral Solution to Antibiotics Weakness
In September 2016, a Nevada woman died of a bacterial infection. The woman, in her 70s, had been hospitalized previously in India due to a… Read More »Bugs Resistant to Drugs: What Can We Do?
Some oft-prescribed antibiotics, including penicillin and cephalosporin, share a common motif in their chemical structure: a small group of atoms arranged in a ring, called… Read More »Johns Hopkins Scientists Discover a Novel Mechanism for β-Lactam Antibiotic Synthesis