Soil microbes reveal how a forgotten frontier could finally defeat antibiotic resistance
Beneath ordinary ground lies one of the most promising and underexplored frontiers in modern medicine. Scientists racing to outpace the global rise of antibiotic resistance are turning back to the soil, armed with technologies that are revealing an enormous reserve of untapped microbial chemistry that earlier generations of researchers never had the tools to access. […]
Increasing drug resistance by superbugs is quietly building toward the next global health crisis
The World Health Organization has raised a flag that the global healthcare community cannot afford to ignore. Nearly one in six infection-causing microbes is now resistant to antibiotic treatment, and between 2018 and 2023, resistance levels rose in more than 40 percent of the pathogen and antibiotic combinations being monitored. The average annual increase during […]