The human microbiome is essential to our health, but scientists have only begun to understand why. Two researchers set out to ...

Researchers from Skoltech and other science centers in Russia have developed a reporter system—a tool for screening potential ...

One of the biggest myths around artificial intelligence is that it can simply create a new medicine on its own. That is not ...

Point-of-care testing is disrupting global diagnostics, creating opportunities for companies such as Lumos Diagnostics ...

Elevated levels of bacteria are more likely to be present in stormwater swashes after heavy rainfall. What to know before ...

In all, the megacluster provides a sophisticated siege on an essential pathway in many bacteria, including Streptomyces’ foes ...

Research has revealed how bacteria rely on circadian clocks to control the spread of their multicellular colonies. The ...

The second and more pernicious way that antimicrobial resistance is growing stronger is through contamination of water and soil. The study cited by the DW report, titled “Pharmaceutical pollution of ...

Three more cattle and one goat have New World screwworm infections, according to the latest update from the US Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Ser ...

All of the enzymes required for a microorganism to synthesize a natural product are encoded by a self-contained, continuous genetic unit known as a biosynthetic gene cluster (BGC) 9. The diversity of ...

The U.S. FDA has approved GSK's oral antibiotic to treat complicated urinary tract ​infections, the regulator said on Wednesday, giving patients a new treatment option ‌against drug-resistant ...

An anticancer medication called TLD1433, a ruthenium(II) complex that has entered Phase II trials for conditions such as non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer, is now being repurposed to address one of ...