The world urgently needs new antibiotics. In 2019 alone, antibiotic-resistant bacteria killed more than 4.5 million people ...

A newfound ability to produce an antibiotic helped a strain of antibiotic-resistant bacteria to take over a hospital.

In the Army’s words, these experiments “proved the feasibility of covering large areas of the country with [biological weapons] agents.” Serratia marcescens bacteria. Open-air testing ...

A deadly hospital superbug has evolved into a global force by weaponizing a genetic tool to wipe out its microbial ...

A drug-resistant type of bacteria that has adapted to health care settings evolved in the past several years to weaponize an antimicrobial genetic tool, eliminating its cousins and replacing them as ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Bacteria like Pseudomonas aeruginosa use type VI secretion systems (T6SS) to retaliate against attacks by assembling nano-spearguns in response to cell envelope ...