Over time, technological advances made it easier to study the microbiota, and in 1977, the famous ratio of one human cell for ...

In addition to the urgent need for new antibiotics, alternative strategies are required to tackle the problem of antibiotic resistance. Michaela Wenzel, Associate Professor at Chalmers University of ...

Researchers from Durham University, Jagiellonian University (Poland) and the John Innes Center have achieved a breakthrough ...

The discovery could pave the way to starving antibioitc-resistant bacteria without new drugs or harmful chemicals.

A bacterial cell (left) is simultaneously attacked on two fronts: by antibiotics and by a positively charged, bactericidal peptide-based material that disrupts the structure of the bacteria’s ...

Antibiotics such as fluoroquinolones exploit this vulnerability by preventing the DNA resealing, which kills the bacterial cell. However, resistance to these antibiotics is growing, so a deeper ...

The rod-shaped tuberculosis (TB) bacterium, which the World Health Organization has once again ranked as the top infectious disease killer globally, is the first single-celled organism ever observed ...

Researchers have uncovered an unexpected vulnerability that could change how we fight deadly infections without using more drugs.

Recent estimates indicate that deadly antibiotic-resistant infections will rapidly escalate over the next quarter century.

Your body is home to trillions of microorganisms, many of which reside in your gut, and among these, the bacteria there play ...

With a $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), researchers at the Case Western Reserve School of ...

Experts have discovered that salmonella has been depleting a key protein which the body’s own immune cells need to function.