Scientists find vulnerability in antibiotic resistance mechanism

Superbugs, bacteria that are immune to multiple antibiotics, pose a great challenge to modern medicine. Researchers from the B CUBE—Center for Molecular Bioengineering at TUD Dresden University of Technology and Institut Pasteur in Paris identified a weakness in the bacterial machinery that drives antibiotic resistance adaptation. Their findings, published in the journal Science Advances, could pave the way to boosting the effectiveness of existing antibiotics.