For the last 60 million years, fungus-growing ants have farmed fungi for food. In their cultivation of those fungi, they’ve successfully relied on bacteria-produced antimicrobial ingre... Read more
A new Trojan horse approach could lead to treatments for some antibiotic-resistant bacteria. A deadly, antibiotic-resistant bacterium can be sterilized by hijacking its haem-acquisition syst... Read more
UNC School of Medicine researchers led by Brian Conlon, PhD, discover how molecules called rhamnolipids could make common aminoglycoside antibiotics effective against the toughest Staph infe... Read more
Creating a defect in tRNA molecules could weaken bacteria’s two-pronged defense and help make faster-acting antibiotics Antibiotic resistance is a major health threat, with about two million... Read more
Researchers at EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) have combined their knowledge of bacterial genetics and web search algorithms to build a DNA search engine for microbial da... Read more
Study identifies key step in spread of drug resistance, opportunity for intervention Spotless surfaces in hospitals can hide bacteria that rarely cause problems for healthy people but pose a... Read more
Researchers analysing soil from Ireland long thought to have medicinal properties have discovered that it contains a previously unknown strain of bacteria which is effective against four of... Read more
Stratospheric ozone depletion The stratospheric ozone layer in the atmosphere filters out ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun. If this layer decreases, increasing amounts of UV radiation... Read more
When you get sick, you want the right treatment fast. But certain infectious microbes are experts at evading the very anti-bacterial drugs designed to fight them. A simple and inexpensive ne... Read more
Boosting efforts to fight antibiotic resistance, Stanford researchers have found that a thin membrane, thought to be just a shrink wrap around some bacterial cell walls, has structural prope... Read more
A team of researchers from Queen’s University Belfast, led by Professor Ryan Donnelly, Professor of Pharmaceutical Technology are developing a new type of skin patch (microarray patch) that... Read more
Antibiotics are commonly used around the world to cure diseases caused by bacteria. But as the World Health Organization and other international bodies have pointed out, the global increase... Read more
Goal is to Distinguish Between Viral and Bacterial Infections, Reduce Unnecessary Use of Antibiotics Antibiotics are lifesaving drugs, but overuse is leading to one of the world’s most press... Read more
