This creamy-yellow growth is the enemy: a new strain of germs resistant to the most powerful antibiotics yet devised by humankind. David Livermore is in a race against evolution.

Antibiotics are a bedrock of modern medicine. But in the very near future, we are going to have to learn to live without them once again.

Researchers say NDM-1 can exist inside different bacteria -- like E.coli -- making them resistant to antibiotics, the BBC reported. Advertisement Dr. David Livermore of the British Health ...

LONDON, March 31 (Reuters) - David Livermore ... the first antibiotic, penicillin, we quickly came to assume we had the chemicals to beat bacteria. Sure, bugs evolve to develop resistance.