The crucial drugs can have unintended consequences. Innovative therapies could shield the microbiome from their effects.

These medicines may be grape- or bubble gum-flavored liquids, or regular pills. They’re called antibiotics (which means “against life” in Greek). People have been using antibiotics for at least a ...

A Cornell University-led collaboration has uncovered the equipment that enables bacteria to survive exposure to antibiotics: ...

A tool that screens for molecules that may have therapeutic value against drug-resistant bacteria has been released for free ...

They first tested the ability of molecules from three chemical libraries to inhibit or not inhibit the growth of A ... suggesting that these compounds are good antibiotic candidates for future ...

More information: Erica J. Zheng et al, Discovery of antibiotics that selectively kill metabolically dormant bacteria, Cell ...

An antibiotic used to treat infective diarrhoea may be an effective drug for a type of inflammatory bowel disease, according ...

The U.K.'s rivers are contaminated with a mixture of chemical pollutants and antibiotic resistant genes, which could be causing severe harm to people and aquatic species, according to the findings ...