When a wound turns septic, healing can quickly become a battle. Antibiotics have been the go-to defense for decades, but ...

CDC reports a major surge in NDM-producing carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales infections that may defy most antibiotics.

In a recent study, researchers identified key genetic factors that enhance tea plant resistance to Colletotrichum ...

Adding bacteria-killing nanoparticles to vinegar could help treat multiple infections—and potentially help fight against ...

Novltex: A New Class of Antibiotics with Potent Activity against Multidrug-Resistant Bacterial Pathogens─Design, Synthesis, ...

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 ...

Cobalt-containing carbon nanoparticles mixed with vinegar effectively kill pathogens, offering a promising approach against ...

Bacteria are constantly moving with the help of motility organs called flagella or pili to colonize new niches. Also, ...

Tuberculosis and Malaria are two major infectious diseases caused by species belonging to Mycobacterium and Plasmodium, ...

Infections caused by a highly drug-resistant and dangerous bacteria known as NDM-producing carpabenem-resistant Enterobacterales, or NDM-CRE, have surged by more than 460% in the U.S. between 2019 and ...

Metagenomic libraries have been prepared to screen for the presence of antibiotic resistance genes in tiny environmental samples. Scientists from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign College of ...