The bacteria Acinetobacter baumannii (A. baumannii) is a haunting presence in many hospitals in the United States, where more than one in 100 patients are treated for A. baumannii infections.

Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital report a proof-of-concept study showing how antibiotic-resistant proteins ...

Antibiotics are widely considered one of the most important advances in the history of medicine. Their introduction into clinical practice during the 1940s marked a major milestone in the control of ...

Life just got more difficult for those fighting antibiotic-resistant superbugs. Researchers at McGill University have ...

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 ...

The bacteria Acinetobacter baumannii (A. baumannii) is a haunting presence in many hospitals in the United States, where more ...

In a bid to better understand heteroresistance, researchers have identified two new ways that bacteria can increase their resistance to antibiotics. Researchers at Uppsala University (Sweden) have ...

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 ...

Scientists from the University of Illinois Chicago and Harvard University have announced the development of a potent new antibiotic that could revolutionize the fight against drug-resistant bacteria.

Terence Crofts’ research group, including paper co-authors Ezabelle Frank (far left), Terence Crofts (behind the group), Elizabeth Bernate (center, in purple), and Hayden Allman (far right). Crofts ...