"Understanding how the environment in which microbes' live leads to new properties could help us to predict how microbes will adapt to th

Leading hospital “superbugs,” known as the enterococci, arose from an ancestor that dates back 450 million years — about the time when animals were

The potentially deadly, drug-resistant “superbug,” carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), is more widespread in U.S.

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But manuka honey kills MRSA and other superbugs. Every study indicated that manuka honey beats back bacteria like a man-made chemical or drug.

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It's not zombies that humankind will have to run from.

According to a recent study by Cleveland-based University Hospitals, children are also at risk of superbugs.

Bacteria are plated in petri dishes in the lab of Gautam Dantas at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Fewer antibiotics are produced as development costs rise. We reached out to a few companies addressing the serious issue of antibiotic resistance.

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These microorganisms are commonly known as superbugs.

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In the fight against antibiotic resistance, it’s all hands on deck.

Nearly every day, there are new reports of antibiotic resistance bacteria – superbugs – that are becoming more difficult to treat.

Scientists have created a baker's yeast which could lead to powerful new antibiotics that combat deadly superbugs.

Over the next five months, according to thousands of pages of medical and billing records reviewed by Reuters, Greulich was attacked by no fewer th

The battle against drug-resistant superbugs has received a major boost after scientists created antibiotics from yeast.

"The rise of drug-resistant superbugs has brought a real urgency to our search for new antibiotics," says Ellis.

Much of the rhetoric around drug resistance has pitched humans in a fight against bacteria.

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He was particularly interested in learning more about bacteria and how, at a cellular level, antibiotics were inadvertently creating superbugs.