Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of the rod-shape bacteria called Acinetobacter baumannii. A newly discovered antibiotic can sidestep the defenses ...

Scientists have discovered a new class of antibiotics with potent activity against multi-drug resistant bacteria, and have shown that it cures bloodstream infections in mice. Two publicly-funded ...

Programmable cell‑like particles seek out drug‑resistant bacteria, inject lethal payloads, and spare beneficial microbes.

A new experimental antibiotic can handily knock off one of the world’s most notoriously drug-resistant and deadly bacteria —in lab dishes and mice, at least. It does so with a never-before-seen method ...

April 1 (UPI) --Swedish scientists have made a breakthrough in combating the global rise in microbial resistance to antibiotics with the discovery of a potent new class of drugs, according to new ...

A new experimental antibiotic has stunned researchers by wiping out dangerous bacteria at concentrations roughly two orders of magnitude lower than some of the drugs doctors rely on today. Early lab ...

About a decade ago, researchers in UC Santa Barbara chemistry professor Guillermo Bazan’s lab began to observe a recurring challenge in their research: Some of the compounds they were developing to ...

A GSK pill that offers a lower potential for drug resistance is now FDA approved as a new treatment for a common type of urinary tract infection, the first new oral antibiotic for this indication in ...

Shigella bacteria are increasingly resisting all antibiotics that can easily treat them, a recent report shows.