The discovery was made through a combination of computer modelling and laboratory experiments involving E. coli, a bacterium ...

A new Rutgers Health study reveals a surprising twist in the antibiotic resistance story: instead of simply killing bacteria, drugs like ciprofloxacin can actually trigger a kind of microbial survival ...

Researchers at Okayama University of Science have discovered that bitter taste receptors—the same type found on the human ...

Researchers on Wednesday reported two promising new approaches to counteract malaria’s growing resistance to medication — one ...

Researchers analyzed the genomes of hundreds of malaria parasites to determine which genetic variants are most likely to confer drug resistance. Researchers at University of California San Diego ...

Staph infections can be deadly, especially in hospitals where certain strains have evolved to be resistant to antibiotics. The bacteria responsible for these infections, Staphylococcus aureus, is ...

Nuclear and nuclear-derived techniques such as isotopic and molecular methods can help assess how resistance genes are transferred between bacterial populations in animals, humans and the environment.

A quest to discover new antibiotics is taking a Cal Poly biochemistry research team back in time millions of years as they ...

From medicine to agriculture and aquaculture, bacteriophages are poised to have a huge global impact. As viruses which target ...

Forget the fountain of youth—the secret to living longer might be sitting right in your gym's weight room. A groundbreaking systematic review and meta-analysis reveals that resistance training ...

Running may help burn calories, but when it comes to preventing diabetes and obesity, pumping iron might have the edge, ...

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