Discoveries

Ringing in New Antibiotic Drugs

September 7, 2006 - When infections like Strep and tuberculosis become resistant to antibiotics, patients are in trouble. Infections become more difficult to treat as disease-causing bugs mutate in ways that render the most widely used drugs ineffective. Nearly all significant bacterial infections in the world are becoming resistant to the most commonly prescribed antibiotic treatments. In fact, the Centers for Disease Control has called antibiotic resistance one of the world’s most pressing public health problems...

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Janet Smith Uncovers Structure of Protein Involved in Vitamin B6 Biosynthesis

Jul. 29, 2005 - LSI research professor Janet Smith has elucidated the structure of an enzyme involved in the biosynthesis of vitamin B6, one of the many vitamins essential in the human diet. Her research is featured as the cover story in today's issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry.

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