At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, earlier this month, experts cautioned that by 2050, as many as 10 million people a year could die from drug-resistant bacteria, viruses, and other ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bacterial strain found in a 5,000-year-old layer of ice in Romania's Scarisoara cave (above) is resistant to 10 modern ...

Bacteriophage T7, a virus that preys on E. coli, becomes a more effective killer after spending time aboard the International ...

Scientists have found that competition between strains of beneficial bacteria in the soil degrades the service that the bacteria provide to their hosts. Plants form alliances with microbes in the soil ...

Researchers have sequenced an ice cave bacterial strain, contributing to our understanding of antimicrobial resistance.

Microbes that consume methane could be used to help slow global warming. Researchers have identified many methane-eating bacteria, known as methanotrophs, but in nature these organisms tend to take in ...