Antibiotic resistance is widely recognized as one of the most urgent public health challenges of the twenty first century. Now, a new study shows that even very small amounts of antibiotics that ...

When CRISPR cuts a gene flanked by short, repeating DNA sequences, the cell’s repair machinery gets confused. It simply zips ...

Using models of vertical inheritance and horizontal transfer, they found that low doses of tetracycline, ampicillin, kanamycin, and streptomycin stabilize resistance and promote gene transfer across ...

Salmonella genomic islands represent large segments of bacterial DNA acquired through horizontal gene transfer that can harbour a multitude of antibiotic resistance genes. These elements, such as ...

(Beyond Pesticides, March 10, 2026) An article in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry identifies pesticides, often neglected, as a core factor in the spread of antibiotic resistance genes ...

Post-pandemic India is facing an antimicrobial resistance crisis, with drug-resistant bacterial infections estimated to claim ...

New research suggests drought can stoke antibiotic resistance in soil bacteria — and that can have an impact on humans.

Intensive antibiotic use in farming has created the ideal conditions for resistant bacteria, viruses and fungi to develop.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scarisoara Ice Cave in Romania. A 5,000-year-old cave bacterium shows resistance to modern antibiotics while producing compounds ...

The movement or acquisition of genetic material between organisms that is not the result of vertical inheritance (reproduction) is called horizontal (or lateral) gene transfer. Horizontal gene ...

Researchers at the University of Oxford have engineered chromosome-free bacterial particles called SimCells that killed more ...