Antimicrobial Peptides: A Roadmap for Accelerating Discovery and Development

Antimicrobial Peptides: A Roadmap for Accelerating Discovery and Development explores the latest technologies and multidisciplinary teams to accelerate the process of discovering and developing more potent antimicrobial peptides, addressing the global challenge of microbial resistance to antibiotics.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 438 pages
Publication date: 03 December 2024
Publisher: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division

Antimicrobial Peptides: A Roadmap for Accelerating Discovery and Development is a comprehensive guide to the efforts of scientists and engineers worldwide to accelerate the process of discovering, producing, and commercializing more potent antimicrobial peptides. These efforts have been fueled by emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and data science, molecular and CFD simulations, easy-to-use process simulation packages, microfluidics, 3D-printing, and many others. These technologies can now be implemented and scaled up quickly and at relatively low cost in low-budget production facilities, critical to moving to sustainable and marketable products worldwide. Discovering novel antimicrobial peptides rationally and cost-effectively has emerged as one of the significant challenges of modern biotechnology. This process has been tedious and costly, resulting in molecules with activities far below those needed to address the current challenge of microbial resistance to antibiotics, which takes the lives of thousands of people around the world every year. Finally, the book also highlights how multidisciplinary teams have assembled to address the challenges of manufacturing, biological testing, and clinical trials to finally reach complete translation.

Weight: 450g
Dimension: 276 x 216 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780443153938