At the same time they make sure the compounds will not be harmful to humans. For an antibiotic to work in a patient, it must reach the areas of the body where the illness-causing pathogen is ...

One lab in Norway is working on a new method to make antibiotics, by training bacteria to eat seaweed. This video is from BBC Click, the BBC's flagship technology programme. In Sri Lanka ...

Their analysis revealed a series of traits that they could use to make customizable antibiotics, allowing them to target particular bacteria in particular body parts, instead of targeting the bacteria ...