Antibiotics

The Black Death was one of the most infamous pandemic events in history. It spread across Asia and Europe, decimating a third of the continent’s population during the Middle Ages. The cause was plague, one of the deadliest diseases in human history, second only to smallpox. Plague outbreaks like the…

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N7 Cattle Company provides locals with premium purebred Black Angus raised without hormones, steroids, or antibiotics About 18 months have passed since Nancy and TJ Finch started developing North Bay’s only cattle farm, the N7 Cattle Company, “from the grass up,” after purchasing the defunct farming property four years ago.…

Nightmare bacteria are very much the stuff of waking life. These microbes pose a “triple threat” to humanity because they are “resistant to all or nearly all antibiotics,” they have “high mortality rates” and they can “spread their resistance to other bacteria,” said the former Centers for Disease Control and…

A team led by UCL (University College London) and Imperial College London researchers has shown for the first time how life-saving antibiotics called polymyxins pierce the armor of harmful bacteria. The findings, published in the journal Nature Microbiology, could lead to new treatments for bacterial infections - especially urgent since…

A natural compound called morin, found in fruits, teas, and nuts, is showing promise as a new tool in the fight against gum disease. Researchers in Brazil encapsulated this substance in a controlled-release powder that mimics powdered milk, with the aim of creating oral care products that work without the…

Plasmids are now the primary vectors of antimicrobial resistance, but our understanding of how human industrialization of antibiotics influenced their evolution is limited by a paucity of data predating the antibiotic era (PAE). By investigating plasmids ...Read More

September 24, 2025 3 min read Infections of Drug-Resistant ‘Nightmare Bacteria’ Are Surging in Hospitals The infection rate of one type of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales bacteria has risen by more than 460 percent in recent years. Scientists say people receiving treatment in hospitals are at highest risk By Lauren J. Young…

Research Briefing Published: 23 September 2025 Nature Biotechnology (2025)Cite this article 299 Accesses 4 Altmetric Metrics details Subjects Most bacteria cannot be grown in the laboratory, which means that their genetic diversity is hidden to traditional culture-based studies. We combined a new DNA extraction method, long-read sequencing, bioinformatics and chemical…

Research Highlight Published: 15 September 2025 Microbiology Iris Marchal 1   Nature Biotechnology volume 43, page 1425 (2025)Cite this article 520 Accesses 3 Altmetric Metrics details Deep learning has emerged as a powerful tool to screen large libraries for compounds with antibiotic activity, but identifying candidates that are structurally novel remains challenging.…