Bacteria can sneakily evade our best efforts at eradication by developing resistance to various pressures in their ...

For example, resistance can occur when bacteria adapt in response to antibiotic exposure. Frequent exposure of a bacteria population to an antibiotic can lead to the strengthening of cell walls – ...

Drugs that act against bacteria are mainly assessed based on how well they inhibit bacterial growth under laboratory ...

New method provides high-resolution surveillance data about multiple common antibiotic-resistant bacteria at once and could help prevent the spread of infections. Researchers have developed a new ...

A mineral-hogging fungus can “bully” bacteria into becoming more antibiotic resistant, according to new work published June 20 in the journal PLOS Biology by Fred Hutch Cancer Center scientists. The ...

Our world is rapidly running out of antibiotics that can combat bacteria and other microorganisms that have developed antimicrobial resistance. (Photo by Jens Büttner/picture alliance via Getty Images ...

Cleveland Clinic researchers have discovered that bacteria inside cancerous tumors may be key to understanding why ...

Peering through his microscope in 1910, Franco-Canadian microbiologist Félix d'Hérelle noticed some "clear spots" in his bacterial cultures, an anomaly that turned out to be viruses preying on the ...

“Of the 100 isolates (single pure strains of bacteria separated from a mixed pool), 73 per cent were single drug-resistant ...

A large study has revealed that dozens of widely used chemicals can damage beneficial gut bacteria. Many of these substances, ...