Drug-resistant infections are a major public health threat around the world. To fight them, scientists are constantly trying ...

In 1928, physician and microbiologist Alexander Fleming returned from holiday to find a petri dish of Staphylococcus bacteria covered in mould, which, he was astonished to note, stopped the bacteria ...

An international team of researchers argues that increasingly hot weather has been responsible for roughly one quarter of emerging antibiotic-resistant Salmonella genes since 1940.

A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the deadly drug-resistant bacteria NDM-CRE found a 70% rise in infections in the U.S. between 2019 and 2023. Also known as ...

For as long as we’ve known that soil bacteria manufacture molecular weapons to fight each other, we’ve been swiping their battle plans. In clinics and hospitals, those turf-war weapons have become ...

Climate change could increase hard-to-treat bacterial infections, two studies suggest. Heat boosted antibiotic resistance among bacteria found in artificially warmed grassland soils, researchers ...

When researchers test whether an antibiotic will work, they usually do so in a controlled laboratory environment. But when an ...