Antimicrobial resistance—when bacteria and fungi defend themselves against the drugs designed to kill them—is an urgent threat to global public health, according to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

As bacteria become increasingly (and worryingly) resistant to antibiotics, scientists are recruiting bacteriophages—a bacteria’s sworn evolutionary enemy—to fight against these troublesome “superbugs.

A team of scientists has developed a cutting-edge CRISPR system that can not only combat antibiotic resistance but actively reverse it. This breakthrough could change the course of modern medicine, ...