The emergence and rapid spread of antibiotic resistance among bacterial pathogens constitutes a critical challenge to modern medicine. Resistance arises through genetic mutations and horizontal ...

Antibiotics are powerful, fast-acting medications designed to eradicate bacterial infections. However, in recent years, their dependability has waned as antibiotic resistant bacteria continues to ...

Evolution is always happening — so why can't we see it? A biologist explains the timescale problem, election pressure, and ...

A new perspective article in Biocontaminant proposes a three-part evolutionary framework for using bacteriophages to better ...

Antibiotic resistance is becoming an accelerating crisis because of the overuse and misuse of antibiotics over many years.

The genetic culprits responsible for the spread of multidrug resistance (MDR) in bacteria have been identified by new research mapping 100 years of bacterial evolution. Experts at the Wellcome Sanger ...

Four antibiotic compounds produced in Streptomyces bacteria attack multiple parts of an essential metabolic pathway.

In all, the megacluster provides a sophisticated siege on an essential pathway in many bacteria, including Streptomyces’ foes ...

Researchers found that highly drug-resistant bacteria from hospitals are also resistant to glyphosate, a commonly used ...

The genetic culprits responsible for the spread of multidrug resistance (MDR) in bacteria have been identified by new research mapping 100 years of bacterial evolution. Experts at the Wellcome Sanger ...

Increased antibiotic use can lead, seemingly paradoxically, to more problematic infections, as the bacteria evolve to resist the treatment. The answer to this antimicrobial resistance, which the ...