A Caltech-led study published in Nature Microbiology found that drought conditions increase the abundance of ...

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 ...

Some bacteria do not defeat antibiotics by evolving resistance right away—they outlast treatment by slipping into hard-to-kill survival states that can reignite infection and complicate recovery.

When CRISPR cuts a gene flanked by short, repeating DNA sequences, the cell’s repair machinery gets confused. It simply zips ...

Antibiotics and the immune system are the two forces that cope with bacterial infections. Now, two studies from Isabel Gordo's laboratory, at Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC, Portugal), show for ...