Mandimycin, which targets a different essential fungi cell resource than other antifungal drugs, should harm other cell types as collateral — but doesn’t.

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

Engineered frog-derived peptides may become powerful new antibiotics, showing strong results against resistant bacteria in ...

The molecule was found in soil samples collected from a laboratory technician’s garden. The discovery shows that “there is ...

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

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 ...

Imagine a world where bacteria, typically feared for causing disease, are turned into powerful weapons against cancer. That’s exactly what some scientists are working on. And they are beginning to ...

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 ...

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 ...

As many as 17 nations, including several the U.S. State Department considers "state sponsors of terrorism," have developed lethal biological agents as weapons of war. The list of bacteria ...