The study reveals that environmental stressors do not merely kill bacteria; they can also prime surviving cells to take up ...

Drugs that act against bacteria are mainly assessed based on how well they inhibit bacterial growth under laboratory ...

Some antibiotics stop bacteria from growing without actually killing them, allowing infections to return later. Scientists at ...

Environmental antimicrobial resistance is turning rivers, soils, and even the air into hidden highways for "superbugs," ...

Researchers believe they have identified a new class of antibiotics, nearly three decades since the last new one came to market. Teams at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada and the University of ...

Talk about a culture shock. Microplastics, like the ones pictured here, have been linked to several health concerns. Researchers from Boston University identified another downside to microplastics — ...

“Microplastics are like rafts — a bacteria on its own might not be able to swim down a river, but riding in its biofilm on a tiny bit of plastic it can be disseminated into many different environments ...