Antibiotics

Your morning coffee could secretly be weakening antibiotics

Ingredients of our daily diet - including caffeine - can influence the resistance of bacteria to antibiotics. This has been…

5 months ago

Antibiotics from human use are contaminating rivers worldwide, study shows

Millions of kilometres of rivers around the world are carrying antibiotic pollution at levels high enough to promote drug resistance…

9 months ago

Bacteria ditch tags to dodge antibiotics

Bacteria modify their ribosomes when exposed to widely used antibiotics, according to research published today in Nature Communications. The subtle…

1 year ago

Developing novel methods to detect antibiotics in vegetables and earthworms

UPV/EHU researcher Irantzu Vergara has managed to analyse, simultaneously, several families of antibiotics in vegetables and earthworms. Sampling carried out…

2 years ago

Antibiotics promote the growth of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the gut

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria get extra nutrients and thrive when the drugs kill 'good' bacteria in the gut. This is according to…

2 years ago