It's one thing to cut down an old tree, and another (challenging) thing entirely to remove the stump that gets left behind.

Learn how plastic pollution is creating new pathways for antibiotic resistance to become an even bigger public health threat.

Many everyday chemicals can damage beneficial gut bacteria and potentially fuel antibiotic resistance, prompting calls to ...

Analysis of hundreds of single-cell genomes from Yellowstone National Park shows bacterial species are less cohesive than previously thought.

“Of the 100 isolates (single pure strains of bacteria separated from a mixed pool), 73 per cent were single drug-resistant ...