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

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

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 ...

Raw cow and sheep milk is frequently contaminated with antibiotic-resistant bacteria that could pose a threat to human and animal health, reports a new study led by Tahir Usman of Abdul Wali Khan ...

Bacteria-killing viruses built from scratch in a University of Pittsburgh lab could be a breakthrough in the battle against fearsome antibiotic-resistant infections. Pitt biotechnology researcher ...

Scientists have reported the discovery of the first in a promising new class of antibiotics — and the find was unexpected, as they hadn't set out to find new drugs. The new antibiotic compound shows ...

Health care providers are in a constant battle with bacteria, and must reach for new weapons whenever they adapt and drugs no longer work on them. But those antibiotic-resistant bacteria are becoming ...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the world’s most urgent health challenges, with the WHO’s recent report showing there are “too few antibacterials in the pipeline” and the limited commercial ...

One in six laboratory-confirmed bacteria tested in 2023 proved resistant to antibiotic treatment, according to the World Health Organization. All were related to various common diseases. According to ...

An MIT team used artificial intelligence to design novel antibiotics, two of which showed promise against MRSA and gonorrhea. With help from artificial intelligence, MIT researchers have designed ...

The World Health Organization is warning drug-resistant bacteria, dubbed ‘superbugs’ are on the rise. These bacteria do not respond to the first-line antibiotics often used by clinicians. Other WRAL ...