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antibiotics
Allison Parshall • November 19, 2021
Scientists are recruiting phages, bacteria’s natural predators, as the antibiotic resistance crisis worsens.
Rahul Rao • January 24, 2020
Drug resistance is spreading to marine wildlife, and the dangers to both animals and humans are real
Donavyn Coffey • January 23, 2019
Undetected superbugs weaken the global fight against tuberculosis, experts say, and genetic sequencing provides a way to diagnose evasive strains of the disease.
Cici Zhang • May 1, 2017
Bacteria-eating viruses regain interest among academia and industry
JoAnna Klein • December 11, 2014
Even animals that live far from humans are developing resistance to antibiotics, alarming puzzled researchers
JoAnna Klein • December 1, 2014
Microbiologist Martin Blaser hopes to restore good microbes to our guts, but will the public take his message too far?
Kate Baggaley • March 12, 2013
A new study finds that survival and weight gain increase when children with severe acute malnutrition are treated with antibiotics
Rachel Nuwer • November 15, 2011
Are fecal transplants really an effective and safe way to treat infection?