Researchers have revealed how antimicrobial resistance spreads from gut bacteria to potentially dangerous hospital superbugs.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Infection rates from drug-resistant “nightmare bacteria” have spiked across the United States and in California at the same time a ...

Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), have uncovered how a ...

Scientists discover microgravity in space could help fight drug-resistant superbugs by creating unique viral mutations, according to a new study.

Researchers from New England Biolabs (NEB®) and Yale University describe the first fully synthetic bacteriophage engineering ...

"Superbug" bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics have the potential to create a nightmare scenario for modern medicine, but experts are hopeful that doctors will be able to slow the spread of ...

Bacteria from cows has shown "promising" results in treating hospital superbugs. The farmyard favorites carry a microbe that could become an "effective weapon" against antibiotic resistant MRSA ...

Bacteria and viruses are locked in a slow motion battle aboard the ISS that looks nothing like life on the ground.

India is in the middle of a silent and dangerous superbug surge. According to a recent global study, 83 percent of patients who enter hospitals already carry antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The study ...

A study by Jawaharlal Nehru University finds that Delhi's polluted winter air carries high levels of antibiotic-resistant bacteria or superbugs far above safe limits, posing public health risks, espec ...