Antibiotic resistance (AR) has steadily accelerated in recent years to become a global health crisis. As deadly bacteria evolve new ways to elude drug treatments for a variety of illnesses, a growing ...

A bacteria-only sugar has become the Achilles’ heel that could help defeat deadly superbugs.

Australian researchers have developed a powerful new way to target deadly, drug-resistant bacteria by designing antibodies ...

Bacteria in food can make you seriously ill, which is why it is so important for the facilities that produce your food to ...

By Vijay Kumar Malesu Why mismatched resistance thresholds between CLSI and EUCAST could be masking the true scale of ...

Four major trends that will shape how we as a society will confront antibiotic resistance in the coming decade.

Scientists in Australia have uncovered a clever new way to fight some of the most dangerous drug-resistant bacteria by ...

A study published in Frontiers explores the microbial diversity within hospital sink drains across multiple wards over a year-long period, focusing on bacterial communities, species identification, ...

By simplifying the engineering process and expanding what can be built, the Golden Gate method greatly broadens the possibilities for scientists working to develop bacteriophages as tools to combat ...

From diagnostics to CRISPR and policy reform, explore how science and society are working together to combat the rising ...

By Dr. Sanchari Sinha Dutta, Ph.D. As temperatures rise and weather extremes intensify, new evidence reveals how climate ...

Houseflies live close to humans and domesticated animals and because they are so mobile they can easily spread bacteria that make people sick. They carry these disease-causing agents on their body ...