Bacteria can easily evolve, and can quickly gain resistance to drugs. Drug-resistant bacterial infections already cause the deaths of millions of people every year, and that number is expected to rise ...

Scientists have identified a new anti-ageing drug class that works by acting on a key gut bacteria process, an advance that may lead to ways to prolong lifespan in humans. Researchers from Queen Mary ...

Many winners of the annual Lasker Awards have gone on to win a Nobel Prize in medicine or other fields. Lucy Shapiro of Stanford University was honored for her 55-year career investigating how ...