Intensive antibiotic use in farming has created the ideal conditions for resistant bacteria, viruses and fungi to develop.

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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 ...

To assess whether weedkiller was also contributing to antibiotic resistance, researchers in Argentina and at the Karlsruhe ...

In a mouse study, scientists found that a bacterial sugar can be exploited to disable dangerous antibiotic-resistant ...

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 ...

Researchers have identified a specific enzyme inside drug-resistant E. coli that bacteria need to build the tiny, hair-like ...

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, ...

Researchers are flagging a growing problem in the world of infectious disease and antimicrobials: superbugs are becoming ...

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 ...