Sweet salvation – how a sugar cane pathogen is gearing up a new era of antibiotic discovery
A potent plant toxin with a unique way of killing harmful bacteria has emerged as one of the strongest new antibiotic candidates in decades
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Blog Evolving AMR awareness into action
It is predicted that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) will be responsible for 10 million global deaths annually by 2050, more deaths than cancer, at a cost of $100 trillion to the world economy. The scale of the problem has led some to describe AMR as the “slow motion pandemic”, or framed as one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse
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News Could cyber designs deliver potent dual-action antibiotics?
Computational modelling has been used to create dual-action compounds with exciting potential as new antibiotics
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News New species of bacteria named after the John Innes Centre
A newly discovered species of antibiotic-resistant bacteria has been named after the academic institute where it was identified – the John Innes Centre
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Blog Comic book science
PhD Student Jacob Hamilton studies insect-bacteria symbiosis to try and find new antibiotics for use in humans. Alongside his PhD Jacob and Hutchings lab partner Katie Noble have teamed up with a team of artists and scientists from around the UK on a comic book designed to communicate their work to a new audience
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Blog Driven by curiosity; Introducing new Group Leader Dmitry Ghilarov
Dr Dmitry Ghilarov joined us in October as one of our new intake of Group Leaders. His new group will be investigating protein molecular machines to discover, design and develop better antimicrobials
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News DNA topoisomerases – vital multi-tasking enzymes
Important advances in the understanding of DNA topoisomerases are discussed in a new review led by John Innes Centre researchers
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Press Release Research pinpoints unique drug target in antibiotic resistant bacteria
Researchers have identified a critical mechanism that allows deadly bacteria to gain resistance to antibiotics
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Press Release Gene-editing produces tenfold increase in superbug slaying antibiotics
Scientists have used gene-editing advances to achieve a tenfold increase in the production of super-bug targeting formicamycin antibiotics
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