Researchers at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) and UChicago Medicine, including Asst. Prof. Mark Mimee (left) and research specialist Ella Rotman, have shown ...

The quest for new antibiotics is going back to the Stone Age. The urgency to identify possible candidates has never been greater as the global population faces nearly 5 million deaths every year that ...

A CU Boulder-led study of sunflowers shows that their genes relate to the abundance of bacteria associated with resistance against one of the pathogens that causes white mold Sunflowers aren’t just ...

Researchers are exploring how germ-eating microbes can be used to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria, NPR reports. Microbes that eat microbes are found in nearly every ecosystem on earth, said Brad ...

Transmission electron micrograph demonstrating how the functional amyloid curli (purple) acts as a molecular suit of armor to defend E. coli (green) against the predatory bacterium Bdellovibrio ...