Wayne Lukas had been battling a severe Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) blood infection. He died on Saturday at the age of 89.

Legendary horse trainer D. Wayne Lukas died at 89 after he was diagnosed with a severe MRSA blood infection and was forced to ...

A thousand-year-old treatment recorded in an early medieval medical text has shown powerful antibacterial effects against ...

MRSA secretes a pore-forming toxin known as α-toxin, which interacts with red blood cells during infection. When the nanoparticle encounters α-toxin, the RBCM layer disintegrates, revealing the ...

Born Darnell Wayne Lukas on Sept. 2, 1935, in Wisconsin as the second of three children, he rose to prominence in the sport ...

More information: Ju Yeon Chung et al, Microbubble‐Controlled Delivery of Biofilm‐Targeting Nanoparticles to Treat MRSA Infection, Advanced Functional Materials (2025). DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202508291 ...

Mitochondria have primarily been known as the energy-producing components of cells. But scientists are increasingly ...

“We observed that the peptides specifically kill cancer cells without attacking healthy breast tissue cells,” Strauß said in ...

Abstract and Introduction Abstract. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is well known as one of the most frequent etiological agents of healthcare-associated infections. The ...

Most People Never Clean This Commonly Touched Surface—and It's Covered in Bacteria originally appeared on Parade.

Scientists in Australia have developed a smart, bacteria-repelling coating based on resilin the ultra-elastic protein that gives fleas their legendary jumping power. When applied to surfaces like ...