First up, researchers from the University of York have analysed samples from rivers on every continent except Antarctica and have...
antibiotics
What is the Placebo Effect? There is a treatment that has the ability to relieve pain, treat depression and even...
When he’s not swabbing beards for bacteria on BBC’s “Trust me, I’m a Doctor” or getting members of the public...
It has recently emerged that a resistance gene for the most widely used 'last resort' antibiotic, colistin, has been found....
A bacterial species normally found in the urinary tract, known as Ureaplasma species, has been discovered to be causing brain...
2015 Leeuwenhoek Lecture by Professor Jeff Errington FMedSci FRS The cell wall is a crucial structure found in almost all bacteria. It...
A study published the journal Nature earlier this month, describes the discovery of a new antibiotic, teixobactin. The discovery of...
Bacteria are our ancient enemies, evolving ever more clever ways of outmanoeuvring our natural defences and scientific technologies. For millennia,...
Imperial College researchers have developed a sensitive in vitro technique to screen drugs for their ability to block malaria transmission,...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has taken a harsher stance on its approval guidelines for new drugs so, despite a...
All belief systems have constructed explanations for illness, its management and those qualified to give opinions on them. UK healthcare...
“The first death in relation to this outbreak occurred on the sixth of January. The second occurred on the thirteenth...
