Cornell researchers have identified a key protein mechanism that helps bacteria expel antibiotics, making them more resistant ...

Archive footage of Sir Alexander Fleming demonstrating how he discovered the world’s first antibiotic, penicillin. Fleming discovered the Staphylococcus bacterium could not grow near the ...

Texas A&M researchers have found that curcumin, when activated by light, can weaken antibiotic-resistant bacteria, restoring ...

Antibiotics are a crucial tool in the fight against bacterial infections. But the World Health Organization has long warned ...

The discovery of the first antibiotic, penicillin, in 1928, was a medical milestone. Before that point, infectious diseases such as smallpox, cholera, diphtheria, pneumonia, typhoid and ...