A radical strategy to tackle drug-resistant tuberculosis could involve reprogramming the metabolism of immune cells called macrophages. This approach makes the bacteria they harbour more sensitive to ...

Tuberculosis is both curable and preventable, yet each year, it still kills more people than any other infectious disease. One reason is that current treatments hinge on rifampicin, an antibiotic that ...

Drug-resistant gonorrhoea is on the rise worldwide, but a new antibiotic could buy us more time before the emergence of completely untreatable strains of the bacteria, which is known to potentially ...

A fungus known to cause severe multi-drug resistant illness is on the rise in Michigan. The state identified more than 110 cases of Candida auris in residents in October, marking the highest one-month ...

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Scientists have reported the discovery of the first in a promising new class of antibiotics — and the find was unexpected, as they hadn't set out to find new drugs. The new antibiotic compound shows ...

Health care providers are in a constant battle with bacteria, and must reach for new weapons whenever they adapt and drugs no longer work on them. But those antibiotic-resistant bacteria are becoming ...

An MIT team used artificial intelligence to design novel antibiotics, two of which showed promise against MRSA and gonorrhea. With help from artificial intelligence, MIT researchers have designed ...

The World Health Organization is warning drug-resistant bacteria, dubbed ‘superbugs’ are on the rise. These bacteria do not respond to the first-line antibiotics often used by clinicians. Other WRAL ...

The World Health Organization sounded the alarm Monday about a growing threat of drug-resistant bacteria around the globe that could undermine life-saving treatments, an issue Wayne State University ...

Geneva -- The World Health Organization sounded the alarm Monday over soaring numbers of drug-resistant bacterial infections, compromising the effectiveness of life-saving treatments and rendering ...