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Engineered antibody targets bacteria-specific sugar, clears lethal drug-resistant infection in mice

  • February 4, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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Engineered antibody targets bacteria-specific sugar, clears lethal drug-resistant infection in mice
Australian researchers have developed a powerful new way to target deadly, drug-resistant bacteria by designing antibodies that recognize a sugar found only on bacterial cells—an advance that could underpin a new generation of immunotherapies for multidrug resistant hospital-acquired infections.

Originally published at Phys.org

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