Cyclodextrins (CDs) are cyclic oligosaccharides derived from starch through enzymatic conversion. Over the past decades, CDs and their derivatives (dC…

Kien Lam UNG obtained his PhD from the University of Montpellier, where he worked on[…]

Gram-negative bacteria are particularly prone to developing antimicrobial resistance (AMR), as evidenced by the WHO's ESKAPEE list of high-priority pathogens. One strategy that has increased is the u...

Lipids play a critical role in the physiology, life cycle, and pathogenicity of mycobacteria. They largely participate in host–pathogen interactions and fulfill important functions ranging from cell w...

The constant emergence of drug-resistant mycobacteria, together with the lack of new antibiotics entering the market, has become a global public health problem that threatens the effective treatment o...

Despite the availability of antibiotics, tuberculosis (TB), caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, was once again declared the world's leading cause of…

Microbial pathogens continue to plague human health and develop resistance to our current frontline treatments. Over the last few decades, there has b…

"This looks bad"’ A Harvard infectious disease researcher is targeted in President Trump’s review

Tuberculosis is a devastating human disease that kills over 1.2 million people a year. This disease is caused by the bacterial pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). Mtb excels at surviving in the...

Crick Group Leader Max Gutierrez has received a £3.4 million Wellcome Discovery Award to investigate how differences in immune cells impact the effectiveness of antibiotics against tuberculosis.

Salicylic acid (SA), its two iodinated analogues 5ISA and 3,5diISA, as well as the anti-inflammatory drug aspirin (ASP), are anti-TB drugs that disrupt the intrabacterial pH homeostasis of Mycobacter...

Background Mycobacterium abscessus is an emerging pathogen causing severe pulmonary infections, particularly in individuals with underlying conditions, such as cystic fibrosis or chronic obstructive p...

Genetic engineering and quantitative fluorescence imaging are key approaches in modern biology research. In this research letter, we report the development and the validation of a new subset of Esche...

Staphylococcus aureus ( S. aureus ) is an opportunistic human pathogen that causes over one million deaths around the world each year. We recently identified a family of serine hydrolases termed fluor...