Tag: antibiotic

Bacteria don’t have sex to reproduce; they use it to stay alive and healthy.

"This approach can be applied to other antibiotics and help us discover new ones," the team explains.

You can't adapt to gettin' stabbed.

Why isn't there a copy-paste command in biology?

Bacteria that cause ulcers and gastric cancer are becoming increasingly resistant to our antibiotics.

"This shows that more research is needed into the efficiency of different water treatment methods for antibiotic removal, as none ...

"The need to focus on nonprescription antibiotic use in community-based antimicrobial stewardship programs is urgent," the authors report.

Kitchen sponges are crawling with bacteria. Turns out that's a good thing.

How can bacteria produce proteins when faced with a protein-production-impairing drug? We found out.

Old tricks, new ways to implement them.

Appear weak where you are strong. Appear strong where you are weak. Show "humility in the face of natural selection."

Shhh! I'm hunting bactewwia!

Uh-oh.

Could you... please not, bacteria?

In space, no one can hear you sneeze.

When in doubt, hibernate.

The whole can be greater or smaller than the sum of its parts.

There's an arms race going between us and bacteria. We seem to be losing -- badly.

No multiplayer-evolution any longer, pleasethankyou!

Surprisingly, these bacteria survived through "random chance".

Digging gold from dirt.

You can't spell antibiotic without ant.

Our last line of defense just got a lot stronger.

Canadian aboriginals have been using clay to treat their ailments for centuries.

Antibiotics have potentially saved more lives than any other human invention. But bugs are catching on...

A research team has demonstrated the effectiveness of a 3-antibiotic cocktail that kills methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, in all ...

When it comes to the appendix, things are still pretty unclear, but one thing's for sure: if you develop appendicitis, ...

Researchers in Germany report the discovery a previously unknown bacterial communication pathway, one that might be a potential target for ...

A lot of Americans seem to be confused about what are antibiotics and what they're good for. According to a ...

It's a game changer - scientists have discovered a new class of antibiotics which can kill an array of germs ...

You just have to applaud the researcher that study mushrooms growing on horse dung to see what medicinal properties they ...

Image via Medscape. In many cases, doctors prescribe antibiotics to children, but most of the time, those viruses don't even ...

A world where even minor infections can kill you, where almost no antibiotics are viable, with superbugs and drug-resistant strains ...

A drug treated with a special dye allows doctors to monitor real-time bacterial growth. Despite advancements in technology and despite ...

For some 50 years, scientists have tried — but failed — to find a way to use microbes against termites. ...

It may not seem like much, but by differentiating between bacterial and viral fevers, this new test could help doctors ...

The advent of antibiotics has spared humanity of a great deal of suffering and has saved countless lives through the ...

Researchers had already known that dogs can sniff out hospital superbug Clostridium defficile from stool samples of patients, but now, ...

Antibiotics are agents that act against microorganisms, such as bacteria, fungi or protozoa. It's obvious that since the development of ...