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Venomtech is pleased to share with you our success in finding new venom peptides that kill bacteria in potentially novel ways. These are all found in our antibacterial T-VDA. This is currently a leading story on Sky News blueprint-to-tackle-scourge-of-drug-resistance showing a small snap shot of what we do and why it's important.

We are fighting hard to bring these important tools needed to the people that need them to help mitigate the perceived threat of the antibiotic apocalypse.

The tools you need to find novel mechanisms to fight antibiotic resistant bacteria are right here with a full hit to lead support service to get them to the patient ASAP.

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Posted by Steven Trim at 17:25

Avoiding the Antibiotic Apocalypse

Tuesday 19th May 2015

With the domination of classical antibiotics coming to a dramatic end, it is time to find novel sources of antibiotics that circumvent the ability of the bacterial to evolve resistance.

New classes of antibiotics are being found in the venoms of several species. Screening these as you would for other compounds is already yielding promising results.

Find out more on our product page here.

Posted by Steven Trim at 16:02