Two newly discovered mechanisms in bacteria have been identified that can contribute to the development of antibiotic resistance. Changing the number of copies of resistance genes in bacteria ...

In a bid to better understand heteroresistance, researchers have identified two new ways that bacteria can increase their resistance to antibiotics. Researchers at Uppsala University (Sweden) have ...

Antibiotics are widely considered one of the most important advances in the history of medicine. Their introduction into clinical practice during the 1940s marked a major milestone in the control of ...

Antimicrobial resistance is largely due to the overuse of antibiotics in humans, animals, and plants, with nearly all regions throughout the world affected by antibiotic-resistant diseases. Current ...

In a world-first, scientists have established the cause of antibiotic-resistance in bacteria, capturing video footage showing that bacteria have the ability to change their form in order to avoid ...

Many life-threatening bacteria are becoming increasingly resistant to existing antibiotics. Researchers have now discovered a new class of antibiotics with a unique spectrum of activity and mechanism ...

Two newly discovered mechanisms in bacteria have been identified that can contribute to the development of antibiotic resistance. Changing the number of copies of resistance genes in bacteria ...

Scientists from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a method to isolate genes from amounts of microbial DNA so tiny that it would take 20,000 samples to weigh as much as a ...

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 antibiotics made them ...