Some bacteria abide against antibiotics not because they are good at hiding, but because their growth slows when nutrients ...

Antibiotics are indispensable for treating bacterial infections. But why are they sometimes ineffective, even when the ...

Real-time imaging shows that bacterial resilience to antibiotics is not caused by a few ‘persisters’, but is a ...

Researchers found that nutrient starvation, not persister cells, helps Salmonella survive antibiotic treatments. Using ...

Researchers made a “huge breakthrough” when they did an experiment “purely out of curiosity” which solves “a decades-long ...

Treatment guidelines for children hospitalized for severe malnutrition include routine administration of antibiotics; however, there is no consensus as to whether antibiotics are indeed helpful in ...

To kill non-growing cells, antibiotics must target cellular structures that are essential for survival, rather than metabolic processes. It is already known that several common antibiotics that ...

The data suggests that the body's use of nutrient scarcity as a defense mechanism may actually enable bacteria's survival in the long run.

The following is a summary of “Antibiotics use decreases survival in cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma patients receiving ...

Using Swedish national registry data from more than 35,000 bowel cancer patients, Ph.D. student Sai San Moon Lu found that use of prescription antibiotics was linked to a higher risk of right ...

Bacteria are constantly engaged in a struggle for survival, facing threats from immune cells, antibiotics, or phages— viruses that only infect bacteria. Over the course of evolution, bacteria ...

Between 1936 and 1945, pneumonia death rates in the United States dropped approximately 40 percent with the greater availability of antibiotics. The more common viral pneumonia usually diminishes ...