The bacteria that cause tuberculosis (TB) may have an "on-off switch" that lets them pause and restart growth, according to a ...

University of Canterbury's School of Biological Sciences Professor Jack HeinemannA University of Canterbury-led project will ...

On 15 April 2025, the ninth round of the Tracking Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Country Self-assessment Survey (TrACSS) began, for completion by June ...

In recent years, the UK has led a drive to raise global awareness of ... announce a new project which will map the spread of death and disease caused by drug-resistant “superbugs”.

Antibiotic resistance poses a growing global health crisis ... collaborating institutions have created a detailed evolutionary map of E. coli, focusing on plasmids—circular DNA structures ...

A new study warns that climate change may accelerate the spread of Aspergillus fungi, increasing the risk of deadly ...

If the body’s immune system fails to clear the spores, the fungus “starts to grow and basically kind of eat you from the inside out, saying it really bluntly,” van Rijn added. The study also points ...

Director Anne Émond takes the anxieties that underlie any romantic comedy and blows them up to global proportions.

Sunshine may hold healing rays for a variety of autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis. Scientists are turning this ...