Bacteria can sneakily evade our best efforts at eradication by developing resistance to various pressures in their ...

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Earthworms remove 70-95 percent of antibiotic resistance genes from farm manure, making safer fertilizer for crops.

Once seen as a lasting medical breakthrough, antibiotics are steadily losing their effectiveness. Around the world, ...

Bacteria can sneakily evade our best efforts at eradication by developing resistance to various pressures in their ...

Vermicomposting earthworms help turn manure into organic fertilizer, representing a potential tool against antibiotic ...

Environmental antimicrobial resistance is turning rivers, soils, and even the air into hidden highways for "superbugs," ...

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Earthworms could become unexpected allies in the global fight against antibiotic resistance, by helping farmers turn manure ...

Antibacterial drugs are important for treating infections. But increasingly, bacterial resistance to current drugs — so they don’t work well, or even at all — means new ones are urgently needed.