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

Some antibiotics stop bacteria from growing without actually killing them, allowing infections to return later. Scientists at ...

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

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

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

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

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

One of us is an urban public health advocate, and the other a rural cattle rancher. Despite our differences, we both know that we can and must act more quickly to solve this problem. We can both see ...

Antibiotic resistance is steadily eroding one of modern medicine’s most essential tools. Each year, more than a million people lose their lives to infections that were once easily treatable, a ...