Scientists have identified a cluster of genes in a common soil bacterium that produce a range of antibiotics that can act against multidrug-resistant bacteria. Researchers say that the discovery could ...

New research headed by scientists at Baylor College of Medicine suggests that when bacteria are under antibiotic attack, it is not “every man for himself.” The team developed a genetic system in ...

All of the enzymes required for a microorganism to synthesize a natural product are encoded by a self-contained, continuous genetic unit known as a biosynthetic gene cluster (BGC) 9. The diversity of ...

Antibiotic resistance has loomed over humans since the moment we started using antibiotics. In the 20th century, the drugs downgraded potentially life-threatening bacterial infections to mere ...

When antibiotics attack bacterial infections, some microbes often persist. The reasons why some bacteria die while their genetically identical counterparts survive have puzzled scientists, but a new ...

Found in volcanic soil in Albay, the newly classified organism belongs to a bacterial group responsible for producing many of today’s antibiotics, underscoring the Philippines’ potential role in the ...

Qin Rao, MD, is a board-certified physician based in New York City. He currently works as a gastroenterologist and hepatologist at Manhattan Gastroenterology. Constipation from antibiotics is more ...

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SINGAPORE—China imposed trade restrictions on dozens of U.S. entities, including two producers of rare-earth minerals, in a sign that tensions between the two countries haven’t dimmed following the ...

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Older women facing repeated urinary tract infections are running into a biological wall: the E. coli strains behind their infections often resist the very antibiotics that clinical guidelines ...

A federal judge on June 22 shot down rules restricting food stamp recipients from purchasing certain "unhealthy" foods in a blow to a program touted by the Trump administration. U.S. District Judge ...