Meet the jumbo phage. Scientists believe they’ve cracked the code on how its ‘secret handshakes’ act as a shield against the ...

A Cornell University-led collaboration has uncovered the equipment that enables bacteria to survive exposure to antibiotics: ...

Discover the importance of antibiotics, bacterial cell walls, and resistance mechanisms in fighting bacterial infections effectively.

Phages are viruses that attack bacteria by injecting their DNA, then usurping bacterial machinery to reproduce. Eventually, ...

Antibiotics are indispensable for treating bacterial infections. But why are they sometimes ineffective, even when the ...

Evidence has emerged about the way bacteria become resistant to multiple drugs. The findings by a John Innes Centre research ...

You probably think “antibiotic resistance” means that a bacterial infection can’t be cured by any antibiotics. But the FDA ...

The conventional wisdom on why some antibiotics don’t work rests on the concept of persistence. A small subset of bacteria sometimes hides out and escapes the effects of the drugs meant to kill them.

Antibiotics are a crucial tool in the fight against bacterial infections. But the World Health Organization has long warned ...

Researchers in Australia have pinpointed a protein found in oysters as a way to make antibiotics more effective. As ...

These findings could fundamentally change antibiotics research. "Our work underlines the importance of studying bacterial behavior and antibiotic effects live and under physiologically relevant ...