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What is penicillin, and how was it discovered?
Live Science via Yahoo News· 10 months agoMultiple Penicillium molds on petri dish The antibiotic penicillin is made by various Penicillium molds, as seen growing in this petri dish. (Image...
Bacteria can develop resistance to drugs they haven’t encountered before − scientists figured this...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 4 months agoDo bacteria mutate randomly, or do they mutate for a purpose? Researchers have been puzzling over...
Vaccine for superbugs? New shot shows promise in early tests
Live Science via Yahoo News· 7 months agoA petri dish of a bacterium called MRSA glowing yellow under a black light. Hospitalization is...
Antidepressants could fuel the rise of superbugs, lab dish study suggests
Live Science via Yahoo News· 1 year agoa scientist's hand, covered by a purple glove, holds a petri dish with visible e. coli colonies...
Viruses could be an unlikely ally in battling antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 8 months agoBacteriophages (like this computer-simulated one) can clear out infections in a way that antibiotics...
Infections in Mississippi are first signs that a type of deadly bacteria from the tropics is now...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 2 years agoBurkholderia pseudomallei bacteria grown on a Petri dish.Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images The...
Drugs that aren’t antibiotics can also kill bacteria − new method pinpoints how
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 months agoThere are many ways to kill microbes that cause dangerous infections. Combining genetic screening...
£8m Longitude Prize won for tackling superbug rise
BBC via Yahoo News· 2 weeks ago[Getty] The £8m Longitude Prize has been won after a decade-long competition to find new tools to tackle the scourge of superbugs. It has been awarded...
'Superbug' infections, deaths rose at beginning of COVID-19 pandemic
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA lab worker holds a petri dish with cultures of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, better...
Could a single synthetic molecule outsmart a variety of drug-resistant bacteria?
LA Times via Yahoo News· 4 months agoScientists have created a synthetic molecule that appears capable of attacking a broad range of...