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The International Space Station (ISS) is a closed ecosystem, and the biology inside it — including its microbial residents — ...

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Biodegradable plastics are not always safer for rivers and oceans, according to a new study that tracked how different plastics change the risk of ...

A research team shows that small phenolic acids can dramatically enhance the activity of tetracycline against multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli.

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Bacteria from cows has shown "promising" results in treating hospital superbugs. The farmyard favorites carry a microbe that ...

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 ...

Drug-resistant gonorrhoea is on the rise worldwide, but a new antibiotic could buy us more time before the emergence of completely untreatable strains of the bacteria, which is known to potentially ...

Antibiotics have long been the go-to treatment for various infections. Still, almost as soon as the treatment was discovered in 1945, widespread use led to the rise of a new problem: antibiotic ...