On a small, gently rocking research boat anchored just offshore in Chesapeake Bay, I lowered a sterile plastic bottle into ...

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Scientists have studied a new target for antibiotics in the greatest detail yet – in the fight against antibiotic resistance.

Scientists mapped the bacterial flagellum in atomic detail, revealing it as a target to disarm infections without killing ...

Targeting the flagellum to deliver a critical, but not fatal, blow to bacteria could help in the fight against antibiotic resistance.