The discovery of antibiotics is one of the greatest medical breakthroughs of the 20th century. Before antibiotics, childbirth ...

Bacteria modify their ribosomes when exposed to widely used antibiotics, according to research in Nature Communications. The ...

"By repurposing existing drugs, we aim to bypass some of the lengthy and expensive steps in traditional antibiotic discovery, ...

Global use of antibiotics has risen by more than 21 percent in the last eight years, raising concerns about antibiotic ...

Antibacterial drugs are important for treating infections. But increasingly, bacterial resistance to current drugs—so they ...

Antibiotic resistance is one of the greatest health threats of our time. With microbes increasingly evading the effects of ...

The central government has soft-launched nafithromycin, India’s first indigenously developed antibiotic, to treat patients ...

Antibacterial drugs are important for treating infections. But increasingly, bacterial resistance to current drugs -- so they don't work well, or even at all -- means new ones are urgently needed.

A novel compound targets an essential transport system found only in disease-causing bacteria, leaving commensal bacteria ...

Nanoplastics significantly alter antibiotic interactions, reducing effectiveness and increasing resistance, posing serious implications for health and ecology.