Antibiotics kill disease-causing bacteria as well as the beneficial ones living in our gut, disturbing the health-maintaining microbiome. A new antibiotic specifically targets hard-to-kill ...

Many important antibiotics are becoming less effective against bacterial infections, as bacteria continue to evolve, gaining ...

Studies have found that nearly a quarter of drugs that aren’t normally prescribed as antibiotics, such as medications used to treat cancer, diabetes and depression, can kill bacteria at doses ...

To kill drug-resistant bacteria, “last-resort” antibiotics borrow a tactic from Medusa’s playbook: petrification. New high-resolution microscope images show that a class of antibiotics ...

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Antibiotic-resistant bacteria get extra nutrients and thrive when the drugs kill "good" bacteria in the gut. This is according to new research led by Imperial College London scientists, which ...

The discovery of an "Achilles' heel" in strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria may provide a better way to deal with this public health crisis. That is the conclusion of an international team of ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Mariana Noto Guillen, UMass Chan Medical School (THE CONVERSATION) Human history ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Human history was forever changed with the discovery of antibiotics in 1928. Infectious diseases such as pneumonia, tuberculosis and sepsis were widespread and lethal until ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Human history was forever changed with the discovery of antibiotics in 1928. Infectious diseases such as pneumonia, tuberculosis and sepsis were widespread and lethal until ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Human history was forever changed with the discovery of antibiotics in 1928. Infectious diseases such as pneumonia, tuberculosis and sepsis were widespread and lethal until ...

Combining genetic screening with machine learning can help researchers identify new antimicrobials. The Conversation — Human history was forever changed with the discovery of antibiotics in 1928 ...