Today, bacterial resistance to antibiotics has become a global threat, and presents a major challenge to medicine. Antibiotics' extensive and often indiscriminate use in medicine, veterinary clinics ...

A groundbreaking antibiotic discovery might finally tip the balance in the global fight against drug-resistant bacteria.

Researchers have created a pipeline for discovering unique combinations of molecules that increase the effectiveness of antibiotics against drug-resistant bacteria. The team, led by scientists at the ...

Buried in the DNA of the long extinct woolly mammoth is a compound that scientists hope will one day yield a lifesaving ...

If there’s a point where antibiotics are no longer effective, one expert says we’re “already there.” MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) is multi-drug-resistant strain ...

That's called antibiotic resistance. Some bacteria can naturally resist certain kinds of antibiotics. Others can become resistant if their genes change or they get drug-resistant genes from other ...

Resistance to antibiotics has led to one million worldwide deaths each year since 1990, for a total of 36 million. It is expected to cause more than 39 million more fatalities by 2050 — three ...

In a startling discovery, a team of Boston University researchers found that bacteria exposed to microplastics became ...

More than 39 million people could die of antibiotic-resistant infections between now and 2050, according to a study published Monday in The Lancet. The authors of the study forecast a nearly 70 ...

Antibiotic resistance is a growing threat to human health, as germs like E. coli and staph gain the power to overcome even ...

The discovery of an "Achilles' heel" in strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria may provide a better way to deal with this public health crisis. That is the conclusion of an international team of ...

The number of global deaths directly attributable to antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections is forecast to rise from a record 1.27 million a year in 2019 to 1.91 million a year by 2050.