New research suggests oral cephalosporins may be a safer alternative to fluoroquinolones for treating kidney infections like pyelonephritis.

Studying ancient microbes like this one is risky research, but it can also reveal novel biological mechanisms that inspire ...

This is part 2 in a three-part series on potential harms from taking antibiotics for dental procedures. Part 1 was published yesterday. Part 3 will publish tomorrow. All will be available here. About ...

SCIENTISTS have discovered an ancient bacterial strain resistant to multiple types of antibiotics – which could worsen the ...

In a cave in Romania, scientists found a bacterial strain entombed in ice that is resistant to 10 modern antibiotics. But it may also help fight superbugs.

An antibiotic used by the Tasmanian salmon farming industry is detected in native species more than 10km away from the ...

The catch is that this microbe, called Psychrobacter SC65A.3, was recovered from cave ice about 5,000 years old. In tests, it resisted 10 antibiotics spanning eight drug classes, despite existing long ...

When he was just a teenager trying to decide what to do with his life, César de la Fuente compiled a list of the world’s biggest problems. He ranked them inversely by how much money governments were ...

Heard of any of these terms? Antibiotic resistance. Superbugs. Drug-resistant infections. Antimicrobial resistance. AMR. They ...

When developing new drugs, one thing is particularly important: finding and producing the right molecules that can be used as ...