Light is a universal stimulus that influences all living things. Cycles of light and dark help set the biological clocks for ...

Researchers have known antibiotic resistance would make infection prevention more difficult over time, but some are already finding major hindrances to treatment due to aggressive strains of superbug ...

Bacteria can sneakily evade our best efforts at eradication by developing resistance to various pressures in their ...

For example, resistance can occur when bacteria adapt in response to antibiotic exposure. Frequent exposure of a bacteria population to an antibiotic can lead to the strengthening of cell walls – ...

Glaciers harbor both ancient and human-derived antibiotic resistance genes, preserved in ice and increasingly mobilized by ...

Researchers suggest that wound dressings infused with antioxidants such as catalase could be an effective future treatment.

Antimicrobial resistance is largely due to the overuse of antibiotics in humans, animals, and plants, with nearly all regions ...

Houseflies live close to humans and domesticated animals and because they are so mobile they can easily spread bacteria that make people sick. They carry these disease-causing agents on their body ...

More than 39 million people worldwide could die from antibiotic-resistant infections over the next 25 years, and another 130 million could die of related causes, according to a landmark new study that ...

Bacteria are good at evolving to evade efforts to destroy it. But building defenses like antibiotic resistance drains limited ...