Tag: Antibiotics
Strep throat can easily be confused with throat infections caused by...
Allen Shaughnessy, Tufts University
“My sore throats, you know, are always worse than anybody’s.”
So declares...
Reconstructing ancient bacterial genomes can revive previously unknown molecules – offering...
Christina Warinner, Harvard University; Alexander Hübner, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and Pierre Stallforth, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Microorganisms –...
Deadly fungus Candida auris is spreading across US hospitals – a...
Arif R. Sarwari, West Virginia University
In late March 2023, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention highlighted...
One easy way to fight antibiotic resistance? Good hand hygiene
Kristofer Wollein Waldetoft, Georgia Institute of Technology
Can washing your hands help stop the evolution of antibiotic resistance? Mathematically,...
Dangerous counterfeit drugs are putting millions of US consumers at risk,...
C. Michael White, University of Connecticut
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
An ambitious plan to stop the rise of superbugs
David Pride, University of California San Diego
Antibiotic resistance is here to stay, but that doesn’t mean we can’t do anything to stop it.
A headline...
Bacteria live on our eyeballs — and understanding their role could...
Tony St. Leger, University of Pittsburgh
You may be familiar with the idea that your gut and skin are home to a collection of microbes...
Microbes that live in fishes’ slimy mucus coating could lead chemists...
Sandra Loesgen, Oregon State University
One day in the future, you may take a pill to treat an illness – and owe your recovery to...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
