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First Opinion Christina Smolke

The pandemic has exposed our broken pharma supply chain. Synthetic biology and brewer’s yeast could fix it

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: Amid fears of superbugs, sales of antibiotics used in food-producing livestock rose last year

In the Lab Shayla Love

Scientists seek a way to predict antibiotic resistance

Hospitals Helen Branswell

Hospitals installed more sinks to stop infections. The sinks can make the problem worse

In the Lab Leah Samuel

Gene-engineered gut bacteria successfully treat sick mice — and could treat humans someday

Health Helen Branswell

World leaders pledge to tackle superbugs, but set no specific targets

Health Carl Zimmer

The surprising history of the war on superbugs — and what it means for the world today

In the Lab Helen Branswell

Investigators find another superbug case in the US

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Biotech Usha Lee McFarling

Slimy clumps of bacteria kill thousands. Scientists are fighting back

Health Helen Branswell

Superbugs for dummies: Explaining the battle between bacteria and antibiotics

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Health Megan Thielking

Happy Memorial Day?! Maybe not: Here are 6 ways barbecues can do you in

Health Helen Branswell

Superbug resistant to last-resort antibiotics found in US

The Pharmalot View Ed Silverman

Cash prizes for pharma are needed to fight superbugs

Lab Chat Megan Thielking

Many bugs found in the human gut can actually be cultured

Lab Chat Megan Thielking

Capturing the vast diversity of bacteria in our bodies

In the Lab Elizabeth Preston

Drugs for your gut bugs are on the horizon

Science Happens! Carl Zimmer

Watch: Episode 2: Peek inside a lab trying to create living medicine — from bugs in your gut

Lab Chat Rebecca Robbins

How a molecular tweak could help fight killer C. diff infections

In the Lab Eric Boodman

Contact lenses may change the bacterial gardens of your eye

Lab Chat Megan Thielking

What makes a bacterium turn into a pathogen?

Business Asher Mullard

Bacteria-fighting antitoxins offer remedy to antibiotic resistance

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

Dozens of drug makers agree on effort to combat antibiotic resistance

In the Lab Andrew Joseph

Your ancestors’ poor diet may have ‘scarred’ your gut microbes

Health Andrew Joseph

This microbe is sneaky, deadly, and way more prevalent than we’d known

In the Lab Carl Zimmer

Scientists unearth bacteria from stomach of 5,300-year-old iceman