Antibiotics are indispensable for treating bacterial infections. But why are they sometimes ineffective, even when the bacteria are not resistant? In their latest study published in the journal Nature ...

According to the CDC, nearly three million people in the U.S. get antibiotic resistant infections every year, and around 35,000 people die from those infections.

Researchers uncover key mechanisms in gene regulation that may lead to better design of RNA-based medicines.

The lab of The Wistar Institute's Jessie Villanueva, Ph.D., has identified a new strategy for attacking treatment-resistant melanoma: inhibiting the gene S6K2. .

Antibiotics are indispensable for treating bacterial infections. But why are they sometimes ineffective, even when the bacteria are not resistant? In their latest study, researchers challenge the ...

Biologists have uncovered a surprising connection between the way plants grow and how they defend themselves against ...

The lab of The Wistar Institute's Jessie Villanueva, Ph.D., has identified a new strategy for attacking treatment-resistant ...

Lung transplant recipients are highly susceptible to infection, the researchers noted, and P. aeruginosa is a leading cause of bacterial pneumonia for them. Indeed, it was the most frequently isolated ...

Imagine one of Denmark's many picturesque beaches, the waves lapping against the shore, the golden sand and the smooth ...

Antibiotics are a crucial tool in the fight against bacterial infections. But the World Health Organization has long warned ...

Amid growing concerns about antibiotic-resistant infections, an international team of microbial experts has introduced a ...

This manuscript describes an important finding of the transcriptional control of a chimeric gene transfer agents (GTA) cluster in Bartonella by a processive anti-termination factor (BrrG). The ...