Trace amounts of antiseptic chemicals in hospital rooms may be driving tolerance and resistance in bacteria, a study finds.

As concerns grow about the end of the antibiotic era due to proliferating strains of superbugs unhampered by drugs, promising advancements are emerging in the realm of antimicrobials. Researchers in ...

It's important to clean new bottles before you use them. Unclean bottles can grow bacteria, fungi, and parasites that may ...

Georgia Tech researchers are teaming up with NASA to study bacteria on the International Space Station to help define how scientists and healthcare professionals combat antibiotic-resistant bacteria ...

Cement manufacturing and repair could be significantly improved by using biocement-producing bacteria, but growing the microbes at construction sites remains a challenge. Now, researchers report a ...

Soil plays a much bigger role in the spread of antibiotic resistance than one might imagine. Surprisingly, the ground beneath us is packed with antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs)—tiny codes that allow ...