UC Irvine researchers combating antibiotic resistance

Progress in antibiotic resistance.
Feb. 25, 2025

Researchers from the University of California, Irvine have developed a drug that could treat bacteria before it becomes drug resistant.

The antibiotics are an extension of vancomycin that “targets, bonds to and renders inactive two different parts of a molecule on the surfaces of pathogenic bacteria,” according to a release. The drug could “eliminate the need for researchers to continuously design new drugs to treat newly evolved strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.”

The study is published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

UC Irvine release on Newswise

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