A small team in Brisbane are on the global antibiotic discovery map with their collaborative approach to fixing the antibiotic pipeline. They have become a benchmark network for researchers to join the antimicrobial resistance (AMR) field and advancing the AMR agenda in governments worldwide.
The periodic table is one of those classic images that you find in many science labs and classrooms. It’s an image almost everyone has seen at some time in their life. But what exactly does the periodic table show?
Researchers are going 'back to the future' to develop a forgotten antibiotic into a new treatment for life-threatening bacterial infections resistant to all known antibiotics.
Since the 1940s scientists have been fighting to protect us from bacterial strains that continue to evolve. The bacteria are developing resistance to antibiotics, our weapons against them, forcing us to find new ways to protect ourselves.