Increasing antibiotic dosage isn’t the only way to fight resistance—adjusting how drugs are delivered could be the game ...

Researchers at LSU are discovering a way to fight back against drug-resistant bacteria through a new medicine.Nearly five ...

Bacteria steal DNA from silent viruses and use it like a memory bank. That memory helps them protect future generations.

Increased antibiotic use can lead, seemingly paradoxically, to more problematic infections, as the bacteria evolve to resist the treatment. The answer to this antimicrobial resistance, which the ...

In a new paper, researchers describe the creation of synthetic peptides, a class of antibiotics, derived from the secretions ...

Known as phage therapy, it uses viruses to kill harmful bacteria in difficult-to-treat infections. Read more at ...

Increased antibiotic use can lead, seemingly paradoxically, to more problematic infections, as the bacteria evolve to resist ...

Now, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have shed new light on how bacteria protect themselves from certain phage ...

University of Toronto researchers have discovered nine new genes used by bacteria to protect themselves against phages - ...

Litter near the Charles River. For 10 to 15 days, Nelia Gross, a PhD candidate studying materials science and engineering, and other researchers incubated several types of microplastics with E. coli, ...

Viruses of bacteria, known as bacteriophages, offer an alternative approach to antibiotics in treating ... of Excellence Controlling Microbes to Fight Infections (CMFI) of the University of ...

Imagine a world in which routine medical procedures often turn deadly from untreatable infections. Before the discovery of ...