Last fall, more than 100 people in 14 states got sick after eating at McDonald’s. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention traced the outbreak to raw onions on the quarter-pounder hamburger, ...

Marsupials are a group of mammals that encompass many of Australia's most iconic animals, unique because of their ...

Somehow, 26 new species of bacteria have managed to survive in the harshest place on Earth -- a NASA cleanroom.

Bacteria learned to survive by developing their own defence mechanism against antibiotic use, finds a 2025 study report by ...

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

In the ultra-sterile cleanrooms where NASA assembles spacecraft bound for other worlds, scientists have uncovered 12 ...

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

Lariocidin hits drug-resistant bacteria where others fail — by hijacking the ribosome at a new site, bypassing defences, and opening the door to a new generation of antibiotics. Lariocidin, a ...

Antibiotic resistance tends to stabilize over time, according to Sonja Lehtinen, PhD, from the University of Lausanne and colleagues. The team published its study, “The evolution of antibiotic ...

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, ...