Most free-living bacteria can attach to surfaces and aggregate to grow into multicellular
communities encased in extracellular polymeric substances called biofilms. Biofilms are …

The advent of multidrug resistance among pathogenic bacteria is imperiling the worth of
antibiotics, which have previously transformed medical sciences. The crisis of antimicrobial …

Misuse and overuse of antibiotics have contributed in the last decades to a phenomenon
known as antibiotic resistance which is currently considered one of the principal threats to …

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), critical components of the innate immune system, are widely
distributed throughout the animal and plant kingdoms. They can protect against a broad …

Rapid rise of antimicrobial resistance against conventional antimicrobials, resurgence of
multidrug resistant microbes and the slowdown in the development of new classes of …

The rapid increase in drug-resistant infections has presented a serious challenge to
antimicrobial therapies. The failure of the most potent antibiotics to kill “superbugs” …

Microbes are known to colonize surfaces and form biofilms. These biofilms are communities
of microbes encased in a self-produced matrix that often contains polysaccharides, DNA and …

The clinical translation of cationic α-helical antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) has been
hindered by structural instability, proteolytic degradation and in vivo toxicity from nonspecific …

In the last several decades, there have been significant advances in anticancer therapy.
However, the development of resistance to cancer drugs and the lack of specificity related to …

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), or host defence peptides, are short proteins in various life
forms. Here we discuss AMPs, which may become a promising substitute or adjuvant in …