Streptococcus pneumoniae is a main cause of bacterial pneumonia worldwide. It can also cause ear and sinus infections and, in ...

We have some tools to control bacteria, like antibiotics, but antibiotic resistance is a growing problem that is a threat to public health... | Microbiology ...

A Dartmouth study finds that molecular hitchhikers living within bacteria can make their hosts extra resistant to medical treatment by corralling them into tightly packed groups. The findings ...

How does antimicrobial resistance spread from gut bacteria to potentially dangerous hospital superbugs? New research reveals all. Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National ...

The problem of antibiotic-resistant bacteria has many health experts worried. As disease-causing bacteria adapt to some of our ways to reduce them, especially with antibiotics, it presents an arms ...

Now that the condition is known to spread sexually, there are steps you and your partner can take to prevent it. By Rachel E. Gross Just as couples adopt each other’s social circles, musical tastes ...

Pots of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, navy, and purple. Coculturing engineered bacteria can produce a full spectrum of colored cellulose. Credit: Sang Yup Lee “We have currently produced seven ...

Associate Professor, GESA Bushell Research Fellow, University of Adelaide and Principal Research Fellow, Precision Cancer Medicine, South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute Susan Woods ...

Last fall, more than 100 people in 14 states got sick after eating at McDonald’s. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention traced the outbreak to raw onions on the quarter-pounder hamburger, ...

Ralstonia solanacearum in a potato plant. The bacterium destroys the vascular system in plants, causing them to succumb to wilt disease. (Credit: Amilcar Sanchez) Scientists at the University of ...