A Caltech-led study published in Nature Microbiology found that drought conditions increase the abundance of ...

A Caltech-led study published in Nature Microbiology found that drought drives elevated antibiotic resistance across soils ...

To assess whether weedkiller was also contributing to antibiotic resistance, researchers in Argentina and at the Karlsruhe ...

Ongoing global warming has the potential to worsen droughts and accelerate the spread of antibiotic resistance.

The genetic culprits responsible for the spread of multidrug resistance (MDR) in bacteria have been identified by new research mapping 100 years of bacterial evolution. Experts at the Wellcome Sanger ...

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Municipal wastewater contains a large range of excreted antibiotics and has therefore long been suspected to be a spawning ground for antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Now, a study led by a team from the ...

Antibiotic resistance has steadily accelerated in recent years to become a global health crisis with estimates of more than 10 million worldwide deaths per year by 2050. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria ...

Scientists have discovered bacteria frozen in an ancient underground ice cave that is resistant to 10 modern antibiotics. Ice caves host a variety of microorganisms, which if melted, could add to the ...