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

Tackling antibiotic resistance likely requires a multifaceted approach. Better and faster point-of-care testing, new treatments, and antimicrobial stewardship could hold promise for future control.

Early in 2025, scientists discovered a promising new antibiotic in a soil sample from a lab technician's backyard. The ...

The paper argues that glaciers can store antibiotic resistance genes for long periods and that climate-driven melting may ...

Dealing with an infection isn't as straightforward as simply killing the pathogen. The body also needs to carefully steer and ...

The study reveals that environmental stressors do not merely kill bacteria; they can also prime surviving cells to take up ...

Antibiotics once turned deadly infections into curable ones. That trust is now cracking. Across hospitals and homes, germs are learning how to survive these medicines. This change is called antibiotic ...

Researchers describe a fundamental mechanism of antibiotic resistance. What happens in a bacterium that is resistant to the antibiotic fusidic acid? With a stop-motion movie at the atomic level, they ...

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 ...

Antibiotic resistance is a growing public health problem around the world. When bacteria like E. coli no longer respond to antibiotics, infections become harder to treat. To develop new antibiotics, ...

A new World Health Organization study finds 1 in 6 infections worldwide are resistant to some antibiotics, highlighting a growing threat from drug-resistant bacteria. The World Health Organization ...

A one-dose oral drug called zoliflodacin has proven highly effective against gonorrhoea in a major international trial. The ...