New study reveals that bacteria can survive antibiotic treatment through two fundamentally different "shutdown modes," not ...

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 ...

Antibiotics are indispensable for treating bacterial infections. But why are they sometimes ineffective, even when the bacteria are not resistant? In their latest study, researchers challenge the ...

Research from Imperial College London (UK) has shown that some antibiotics actually cause antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the gut to thrive by killing off beneficial bacteria. This research can be ...

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, ...

A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the deadly drug-resistant bacteria NDM-CRE found a 70% rise in infections in the U.S. between 2019 and 2023. Also known as ...

Bacteria modify their ribosomes when exposed to widely used antibiotics, according to research published today in Nature Communications. The subtle changes might be enough to alter the binding site of ...

University of Otago scientists are harnessing the power of peptides—the body's own tiny protein molecules—for a spray to help ...

Fermented food such as kimchi and artisan cheeses can contain antibiotic-resistant bacteria, some of which have the potential to cause ill health. For more than 20 years, Hua Wang at The Ohio State ...