Drug resistance is an increasing problem in bacterial infections, but a new study may have uncovered a way to reinvigorate old antibiotics. Scientists have wrapped gold nanoparticles in molecules that ...

It's easy to think of bacteria as one of the greatest scourges on Earth for the diseases and deaths they cause, and how they repeatedly thwart our best antibiotics, evolving into drug-resistant ...

Scientists at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have discovered they can make antibiotics effective against drug resistance bacteria by disrupting the bacteria’s cell-to-cell communication ...

Using an artificial intelligence tool that predicts the antimicrobial capabilities of peptides, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania were able to screen over 40 million peptides from ...

There are many bacterial organisms, and they can live cooperatively, or they can battle one another. They are also capable of evolving. These microbes can easily share genetic material, produce ...

Antibiotic resistance is turning routine infections into life threatening events, and the traditional pipeline for new drugs ...

A presidential advisory panel is urging the HHS secretary to make antibiotic stewardship programs mandatory for U.S. hospitals. In an April letter to HHS Secretary Alex M. Azar, the Presidential ...

In the US, antibiotic innovation has been put on hold, and the last novel class that the FDA approved was in 1984, according to Wired. This is a growing concern for many, especially for patients who ...

Discovered: early risers are healthier than night owls; robots take one more step toward self-awareness; antibiotics expand our waistlines; octopi are conscious. The early bird gets the healthier life ...