Rising heat and drought may spur bacteria to exchange antibiotic resistance genes, with potential risks to human health.

A study recently published in the journal Frontiers in Microbiology may be changing the way we detect antibiotic resistance.

The study, recently published in Nature Microbiology, reveals how certain bacteria prevent the transfer of genetic material ...

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are showing up in wildlife, with birds and foxes acting as unexpected carriers across ...

Even when bacteria appear susceptible in routine tests, tolerance can let them survive therapy long enough to drive ...

Antibiotics are one of the greatest breakthroughs in medical history. They turned once-deadly infections into treatable ...

Researchers at McMaster University have developed a new generative artificial intelligence (AI) model capable of drastically speeding up drug discovery—and, in early tests, it has already designed a ...

Antibiotic resistance and antibiotic tolerance have their distinct effect on your system. Knowing their differences is key to ...

Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs)—segments of DNA that help bacteria survive the effects of antibiotics—can be present in ...

Learn more about the discovery of antibiotic resistance genes in newborns within hours of birth in research presented at ...

A CDC alert warns that drug-resistant Shigella infections have increased substantially in the U.S., with cases spreading ...

A newly discovered mechanism renders antibiotic-resistant bacteria vulnerable by disabling both their individual resistance ...