Antibiotics are supposed to wipe out bacteria, yet the drugs can sometimes hand microbes an unexpected advantage. A new study…
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The bacteria that cause tuberculosis (TB) may have an “on-off switch” that lets them pause and restart growth, according to…
Read More »In a new article published in Nature Communications, researchers from Uppsala Antibiotic Center, Uppsala University and SciLifeLab describe a fundamental…
Read More »An international team of researchers, led by the University of Vienna and the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland, has…
Read More »Staphylococcus borealis has been found to be resistant to several different types of antibiotics, posing a potentially significant problem for…
Read More »Birmingham scientists have identified essential genetic code for a method called plasmid curing, which aims to ‘displace’ antibiotic resistance genes…
Read More »Cholera kills thousands of people and infects hundreds of thousands every year — and cases have spiked in recent years,…
Read More »Lyme disease, a disease transmitted when deer ticks feed on infected animals like deer and rodents, and then bite humans,…
Read More »The global proliferation of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) poses a significant threat to the efficacy of antibiotic-based treatments for diseases.…
Read More »The first-of-its-kind in-depth bacterial evolutionary map could pave the way for the development of precision treatments for certain antibiotic-resistant infections,…
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