New methods to develop novel antibiotics are desperately needed. Now, researchers have developed a way to manipulate key assembly line enzymes in bacteria, using CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing, which could ...

Researchers from North Carolina State University have engineered designer biosensors that can detect antibiotic molecules of interest. The biosensors are a first step toward creating ...

The molecular mechanisms underlying control of antibiotic production by hormones in soil bacteria have been elicited for the first time in a study by scientists at University of Warwick in Coventry, U ...

Drug makers need to do far more to tackle the rise of superbugs, according to a major new report presented at the World Economic Forum in Davos which found the number of new antibiotics being ...

Antibiotic resistance poses a threat to global health and food security. And McDonald's — one of the globe's largest purchasers of beef — gets it: The more that antibiotics are given to livestock, the ...

(Beyond Pesticides, February 19, 2019) At the request of Beyond Pesticides, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has extended its public comment period on antibiotics in citrus production until ...

Sales and distribution of medically important antimicrobials for food-producing animals in the United States increased 23% from 2009 through 2014, according to a recent FDA report. Perspective from ...