Your dishwasher has one of the most important jobs of all your kitchen appliances. When it comes to cleaning power, do you ...

The bacteria are prone to deficiencies in a specific DNA repair pathway, a condition known to spur rapid mutations in bacteria, which increase the odds of drug resistance developing.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A unique genetic signature in bacteria can predict their likelihood of developing antibiotic resistance. This discovery focuses on Pseudomonas aeruginosa, known ...

Interest died away once antibiotic drugs were developed, but today’s urgency to find new ways of fighting antibiotic-resistant bacteria has sparked new research. Scientists first began working on ...

A scanning electron micrograph of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, or MRSA (in yellow), surrounding a dead human white blood cell (in red ...

The battlefields have become a breeding ground for new, deadly, drug-resistant bacteria. It’s only to be expected. Ukraine’s broad battlefields are littered with mud and corpses. Gaza is in ...

Feb. 11, 2025 — Biomedical engineers have demonstrated a new synthetic approach that turbocharges bacteria into producing more of a specific protein, even proteins that would normally destroy ...

with experts predicting that some 39 million people could die from antimicrobial-resistant infections between now and 2050. Some illness-causing bacteria, fungi and other pathogens are evolving to ...

In the quest to take the “forever” out of “forever chemicals,” bacteria might be our ally. Most remediation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) involves adsorbing and trapping them, but ...