In 2016, a mysterious illness spread inside the National Institutes of Health’s Clinical Center, the U.S. government’s…
No place is safe from the scourge of superbugs, a new study suggests, not even space. According to the study, samples…
One of the few bastions of purity left in this forsaken world—puppies—might be inadvertently spreading a bacterial…
A common antidepressant, sold under the brand name Prozac, could be helping some bacteria build resistance to…
The bacteria that cause urinary tract infections are not only becoming more resistant to antibiotics, suggests a recent…
Bacteria are steadily winning the war against even our strongest antibiotics, stoking fears of a future that resembles…
Getting a stomach bug is bad enough. But a new outbreak of salmonella bacteria spread by raw turkey that has sickened…
Much like climate change, the growing emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacterial superbugs is a ticking time bomb that…
Last month, UK health officials reported the world’s first documented case of highly drug-resistant gonorrhea. Now…
A dreaded superbug nightmare has become reality. A UK man is believed to have the first confirmed case of gonorrhea…
A class of antibiotics heralded as an essential future weapon against drug-resistant superbugs passed an important…
It’s polluted, germ-filled sludge, not sharks, that will make going to the beach more dangerous than just staying home…
When an outbreak occurs, in order to effectively figure out how to stop it, researchers typically try to figure out how…
In recent years, superbugs have become one of the biggest threats to modern human health. At present, the CDC estimates…
A new experiment shows that long-term exposure to microgravity affects bacteria at the genetic level—conferring…
Over the past nine months, the number of US cases of an emerging, multi-drug resistant fungus has ballooned from 7 to…
For the first time ever, the World Health Organization has published a list of the 12 superbugs that pose the greatest…
When folks talk about the gene-editing tool CRISPR, they’re usually talking about CRISPR-Cas9, a combination of DNA and…
Fifteen years ago, US public health officials declared that infections resistant to antibiotics could become a major…
On January 1, a set of long-awaited FDA rules went into effect that could mark a major shift in the agency’s approach…
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