One in six laboratory-confirmed bacteria in 2023 proved resistant to antibiotic treatment, according to the World Health ...

A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the deadly drug-resistant bacteria NDM-CRE found a 70% ...

Human history was forever changed with the discovery of antibiotics in 1928. Infectious diseases such as pneumonia, tuberculosis and sepsis were widespread and lethal until antibiotics made them ...

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

Scientists at the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (Leibniz IPHT) have developed a new microarray-based diagnostic ...

A UNSW professor in microbiome research and a top neurogastroenterologist offer advice on how to enhance the growth of good ...

As unspent antibiotics pass from our bodies into the environment, they contribute to the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Scientists are addressing this problem with a new technology ...

Many important antibiotics are becoming less effective against bacterial infections; as bacteria continue to evolve, they gain and share resistance genes that enable them to evade the drugs. And while ...

Antibiotic-resistant superbugs pose a growing global health threat, with WHO reporting that antimicrobial resistance is ...

Researchers have unveiled a surprising new way that soil microbes can use sunlight energy—even after the lights go out. A team from Kunming University of Science and Technology and the University of ...

Some doctors recommend taking probiotics during and after you complete a course of antibiotics — here's why.

But antibiotics have an inherent caveat: when overused, bacteria can evolve resistance to these drugs. The World Health Organization estimated that these superbugs caused 1.27 million deaths around ...