{"id":771,"date":"2026-07-22T07:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T07:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/22\/scientists-revive-a-powerful-antibiotic-that-superbugs-had-defeated\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T07:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T07:21:08","slug":"scientists-revive-a-powerful-antibiotic-that-superbugs-had-defeated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/22\/scientists-revive-a-powerful-antibiotic-that-superbugs-had-defeated\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists revive a powerful antibiotic that superbugs had defeated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <title>Reviving Vancomycin: A Breakthrough in Antibiotic Resistance<\/title><\/p>\n<article>\n<h1>Reviving Vancomycin: A Breakthrough in Antibiotic Resistance<\/h1>\n<p>In a remarkable leap forward, scientists have discovered a method to rejuvenate vancomycin, a formidable antibiotic that some perilous bacteria have managed to outsmart. Rather than developing a brand-new drug, researchers ingeniously combined vancomycin with a small molecule known as pghi-4. This molecule effectively inhibits a bacterial enzyme that contributes to resistance. The result? The antibiotic&#8217;s potency against drug-resistant <em>E. faecium<\/em> has been restored, igniting optimism that similar chemical allies might breathe new life into other struggling medications.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"bkbc-attribution\">Originally published at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2026\/07\/260722032108.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.sciencedaily.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviving Vancomycin: A Breakthrough in Antibiotic Resistance Reviving Vancomycin: A Breakthrough in Antibiotic Resistance In a remarkable leap forward, scientists have discovered a method to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}