Superbugs with antimicrobial resistance (AMR) are a looming public health threat that could cause the deaths of 10 million people annually by 2050. In a recent study, scientists detail a new ...

Scientists have discovered a bacterial "gatekeeper" that blocks the spread of antibiotic resistance, a finding that could lead to new ways of treating stubborn infections. Researchers at the Hebrew ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Sir Alexander Fleming, the ...

Long before we had modern antibiotics to rely on, people often turned to traditional medicines from plants to treat ...

A biohybrid nanorobot pairs a bacterial virus with catalytic nanoparticles to destroy drug-resistant biofilms and shred the ...

Antimicrobial resistance is a crisis hiding in plain sight. A new report estimates that 1.15 million people died due to superbugs in 2022, and that about 39 million people could die by 2050. The ...

Superbugs that are increasingly resistant to infections could kill up to 40 million people between now and 2050, according to new research published in the journal The Lancet. During that time period, ...

These small, swift, prolific insects that live only around people are quickly evolving resistance to a range of pesticides at ...

Around 38 million civilians died worldwide because of World War II. The death toll of “the largest and most violent military conflict in human history” is a grim matter of the past, but something else ...

There’s an urgent need for more careful antibiotic management to protect older people living in residential aged care from the dangerous spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria or ‘superbugs’, ...

Here’s what you'll learn when you read this story: “Methylenomycin A was originally discovered 50 years ago and while it has been synthesized several times, no one appears to have tested the synthetic ...