More than half of people who receive antibiotics to treat appendicitis do not see their disease come back 10 years after the initial illness, a new study shows. The data come from one of the first ...

Learn how antibiotic resistance and superbugs are making common infections harder to treat, why drug resistant bacteria are a growing threat, and what this means for future infection treatment. In ...

In modern medicine, antibiotics are among the most powerful tools for preventing and treating life-threatening bacterial infections. Their effectiveness, however, often depends on using the right drug ...

Antibiotic resistance (AR) has steadily accelerated in recent years to become a global health crisis. As deadly bacteria evolve new ways to elude drug treatments for a variety of illnesses, a growing ...

In 1928, a chance contaminant in Scottish physician Alexander Fleming's lab experiment led to a discovery that would change the field of medicine forever: penicillin. Since then, penicillin and other ...

Studying ancient microbes like this one is risky research, but it can also reveal novel biological mechanisms that inspire more effective drugs. Reading time 3 minutes For decades, antibiotics have ...

Scientists have discovered bacteria frozen in an ancient underground ice cave that is resistant to 10 modern antibiotics. Ice caves host a variety of microorganisms, which if melted, could add to the ...

A new study has found widespread traces of antibiotic‑resistant bacteria in Oxford's river systems, prompting calls for year‑round water sampling. In the study, tests were carried out at four sites ...

Background Metabolic dysfunction associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), the most common chronic liver disease globally, may originate early in life. While maternal obesity is linked to offspring ...

If you were asked to picture how electrons move, you could be forgiven for imagining a stream of particles sluicing down a wire like water rushing through a pipe. After all, we often describe ...