Antibiotic resistance has become one of the most pressing threats to global health. Infections once treatable with a simple ...

Metagenomic libraries have been prepared to screen for the presence of antibiotic resistance genes in tiny environmental samples. Scientists from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign College of ...

In early 2023, an exceptionally powerful tropical cyclone formed over the Indian Ocean, sweeping over Madagascar and Mozambique before finally dissipating—after more than five weeks—over Malawi.

Aircraft toilets could become a powerful early warning tool in the fight against antimicrobial resistant super-bugs, a growing health crisis that threatens to kill more people than cancer by 2050.

Antimicrobial resistance studies often focus on individual protein variants, neglecting broader protein family dynamics. Dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR), a key antibiotic target, has been extensively ...

On August 1st a journalist who writes for an American celebrity-gossip site woke up to a nasty shock. The site had been cloned, and she appeared as the author of a fake story claiming that Maia Sandu, ...

In the face of a bacterium that easily resists common antibiotics, members of UAB established testing to identify it in human disease. Mycoplasma, that is. Mycoplasmas are the smallest free-living ...

Current methods for assessing antibiotic resistance typically rely on bacterial cultures, a process that can take up to 2 days. Such delays can be critical in urgent clinical settings. To address this ...

Researchers from King's College London have called for urgent changes to the way new antibiotics are developed to address the growing problem of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). In a new review ...