They are everywhere: in oceans, floating in the air, and even inside the human body. Microplastics have become an unavoidable ...

Researchers at LSU are discovering a way to fight back against drug-resistant bacteria through a new medicine.

Microplastics-tiny shards of plastic debris-are all over the planet. They have made their way up food chains, accumulated in oceans, clustered in clouds and on mountains, and been found inside our ...

Evolving cultivated meat industry aims to avoid the use of antibiotics but will need to ensure the meat does not become ...

Biofilms, ubiquitous bacterial communities embedded in a slimy matrix, are the oldest form of multicellularity on Earth; they ...

As well as degrading proteins, the proteosome surprisingly also functions in human defence against bacterial infection. By ...

The rise of antibiotic resistance demands urgent research into its molecular mechanisms to inform the development of ...

But not every molecule is a mirror molecule ... And unlike a person, I’m not going to be able to go to a clinic and get antibiotics, the new mirror antibiotics. The chipmunk’s just going to be toast.

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the biggest threats to global public health. Without effective antibiotics, the prevention and treatment of infections would be compromised. The UK’s 20-year ...

"The issue with antibiotics is this crisis of antibiotic ... bonds to and renders inactive two different parts of a molecule on the surfaces of pathogenic bacteria. Nowick likens the process ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Student motivation, particularly among nonchemistry majors, remains a crucial area of ...