How has this happened? By a combination of Darwinian natural selection (hit a population of bacteria with an antibiotic, and the fittest will survive) and an evolutionary mechanism discovered much ...

A healthier brain could one day be just a snort away: bacteria that colonize the nose have been engineered to ferry drugs to the brains of mice. “Drugs often don’t get to where they need to go ...

Antibiotic resistance is fueled either by new bacterial mutations or by acquiring resistance genes from other bacteria. A team of researchers recently published a report on a drug that ...

Bacteria Can Develop Resistance to Drugs They Haven't Encountered Before Scientists Figured This Out Decades Ago in a Classic Experiment (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of ...

If the MEP pathway in bacteria is blocked, for example by a drug, the bacteria can no longer produce a number of vital natural products and subsequently die. Human cells do not have the MEP ...

The drug did not inhibit bacterial growth in the lab even though it staved off disease in plants, suggesting that it doesn’t kill bacteria like an antibiotic but instead limits their virulence.

Antibiotic resistance is a global public health crisis responsible for more than a million deaths annually. By 2050, the World Health Organization estimates it could surpass cancer and heart disease ...