Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest challenges in modern medicine, and researchers are exploring new solutions with antimicrobial peptides (AMPs)—small molecules naturally produced by living organisms to fight infections—this time, inspired by octopuses.

We chat to Dr Wenyi Li and Dr Andrew Hung to learn more about their research.

🔗Read more: Aggregation-prone antimicrobial peptides target gram-negative bacterial nucleic acids and protein synthesis - ScienceDirect

Authors:
Pengyu Chen, Chunyuan Li, Sihui Li, Jackson Nkoh Nkoh, Chenjing Shang – Shenzhen University, China 🇨🇳
Tianmeng Zhang, Praveen Praveen, Kathy Parisi, Siyang Ding, Yuning Hong, Wenyi Li – La Trobe University, Australia 🇦🇺
Chia Beh, Andrew Hung – RMIT University, Australia 🇦🇺
John D. Wade – The Florey Institute and the University of Melbourne, Australia 🇦🇺

00:00 - 00:53 Dr Andrew Hung introduction
00:53 - 01:04 Dr Wenyi Li introduction
01:04 - 05:46 The research project
05:46 - 07:33 Key findings
07:33 - 09:59 AI use
09:59 - 10:27 Future research