Tag: Antibiotic resistance
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,...
Nature is the world’s original pharmacy – returning to medicine’s roots...
Ashu Tripathi, University of Michigan
While humans evolved over a period of approximately 6 million years, breakthroughs in modern...
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...
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...
How to train the body’s own cells to combat antibiotic resistance
Zahidul Alam, University of Pennsylvania
Drug-resistant superbugs have threatened human health for decades. The situation is getting worse because of the shortage of new antibiotics....
How scientists are fighting infection-causing biofilms
Nicholas Fitzkee, Mississippi State University
The surfaces people interact with every day may seem rather mundane, but at the molecular scale, there is more activity...
Three reasons the US is not ready for the next pandemic
Christine Crudo Blackburn, Texas A&M University ; Andrew Natsios, Texas A&M University , and Gerald W. Parker, Texas A&M University
One hundred years after...
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...
