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 ...

Antibiotics (ABs) are among the most used pharmaceutical drugs worldwide, as they are currently the most effective medicines ...

Salk scientists discover the immune system handles infection differently in young and aged mice with sepsis, with the same ...

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

The pathogen that causes the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea is notorious for its ability to develop drug resistance. But now there are two more treatment options. In December, the U.S. Food ...

Scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have revealed that bacteriophages use a small RNA molecule to hijack bacterial cells, a mechanism that had never been described before. A tiny viral ...

Researchers at South China Agricultural University have developed a novel synthetic biology-based platform to degrade tetracycline residues in aquatic environments. The study, published in Engineering ...

Posted: July 15, 2025 | Last updated: October 16, 2025 Typhoid fever is rarely considered a problem in developed countries today. Yet strains of this ancient plague are developing resistance to ...

Buried in the DNA of the long extinct woolly mammoth is a compound that scientists hope will one day yield a lifesaving antibiotic. In experiments, mammuthusin, as the compound is called, has ...

If you've ever taken a course of antibiotics, your infection might have cleared, but your gut might take longer to recover. That's because the disease-fighting pills blast all of the bacteria in your ...

Millions of kilometers of rivers around the world are carrying antibiotic pollution at levels high enough to promote drug resistance and harm aquatic life, a new study warns. The study estimated the ...