Antibiotics are indispensable for treating bacterial infections. But why are they sometimes ineffective, even when the ...

Phages are viruses that attack bacteria by injecting their DNA, then usurping bacterial machinery to reproduce. Eventually, ...

Real-time imaging shows that bacterial resilience to antibiotics is not caused by a few ‘persisters’, but is a ...

Antibiotics are a crucial tool in the fight against bacterial infections. But the World Health Organization has long warned ...

In the face of rising concerns about antibiotic resistant infections, an international group of microbial experts have ...

"If we treated every child that had a change of X-ray and the changes we saw in Ben with antibiotics, then we would be ...

Complementary discoveries have the potential to enhance treatment options for antibiotic-resistant infections. Researchers at ...

Scientists are learning more about how an intriguing type of virus protects itself. Revealing its strategies could boost the fight against antibiotic ...

Researchers have developed nanoflower-coated bandages with antibiotic and anti-inflammatory properties, capable of killing ...

Ben Condon, who was two months old, died at Bristol Children’s Hospital in April 2015 after developing a respiratory illness.

In lab experiments, a protein found in the Sydney rock oyster made some antibiotics more effective and killed several types ...

Researchers made a “huge breakthrough” when they did an experiment “purely out of curiosity” which solves “a decades-long ...