A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the deadly drug-resistant bacteria NDM-CRE found a 70% rise in infections in the U.S. between 2019 and 2023. Also known as ...

The bacterium known as Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an unwelcome visitor in the human body. Serious infections can result when a ...

You’ve probably heard about antimicrobial resistance (AMR) before, but how much do you know about microbes, antibiotics, and ...

A UNSW professor in microbiome research and a top neurogastroenterologist offer advice on how to enhance the growth of good ...

The microbes that take hold in our bodies during early life have long-term effects on our brain health. Helen Thomson ...

Physicians have relied on a class of antibiotics called polymyxins to fight potentially life-threatening Gram-negative bacterial infections for more than 80 years. These drugs are typically reserved ...

The antibiotics, called polymyxins, were observed forcing the armored membranes around Escherichia coli bacterial cells to grow bumps and bulges. The bacteria then shed their outer membranes, leaving ...

Few hospital-acquired infections are as antibiotic-resistant as Pseudomonas aeruginosa. This opportunistic germ has earned a ...

Researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have discovered a previously unknown mechanism that ...

Chelsie E. Armbruster, PhD, associate professor of microbiology and immunology, recently received $3.75 million from the National Institutes of Health to study how polymicrobial communities form ...

When harmful bacteria that cause food poisoning, such as E. coli, invade through the digestive tract, gut cells usually fight ...