But folklore is stubborn, capable of resisting even the most compelling facts. By 1925, when Popular Science reported the ...

Antibiotic resistance is a global health challenge that could overtake cancer mortality within a few decades. In a new study, ...

Bacteria steal DNA from silent viruses and use it like a memory bank. That memory helps them protect future generations.

Antibiotic resistance is a global health challenge that could overtake cancer mortality within a few decades. In a new study, researchers show that the emergence of resistance can be understood in the ...

Schrödinger later revised his view – around the 1950s – suggesting that life depends on free energy. Free energy is the ...

The list of 24 pathogen families is also the first to consider global health threats, as well as threats specific to the UK ...

In a growing global trend, bacteria are evolving new ways to maneuver around medical treatments for a variety of infections.

A key to antibiotic resistance might be the use of viruses to kill bacteria, however, the systems that bacteria employ to defense themselves against viruses are unknown. Understanding these systems ...