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

Researchers report how Paenibacillus avoids harm by its own antibiotic — information that is crucial for developing new drug ...

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

BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 4 (UPI) --Argentine scientists have identified a mechanism that allows pancreatic beta cells, which produce insulin, to become resistant to damage. The finding opens the door to new ...

ABSTRACT: The increasing accumulation of plastics in aquatic environments represents a major environmental and public health concern, particularly in densely populated urban areas with intense human ...

Human infections from drug-resistant bacteria are spiking in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has warned. The CDC’s laboratory tests have shown that occurrences of a bacteria ...

Guangdong Engineering Technology Research Center for Source Control of Combined Pollution in Mining Areas, Guangzhou 510006, China SCNU Environmental Research Institute, Guangdong Provincial Key ...

ABSTRACT: The spread of multi-resistant community-associated Staphylococcus strains poses a significant public health threat, greatly limiting therapeutic options for treating severe infections. A ...

Multidrug resistance (MDR) in bacterial and fungal pathogens poses a growing global health crisis, rendering many conventional antimicrobial therapies ineffective. The rise of MDR strains complicates ...

The mystery of how cancers build up resistance mechanisms and evade the treatments that should have destroyed them is a hugely pressing question. Overcoming cancer treatment resistance—a phenomenon ...