Every year, millions suffer, and thousands lose their lives to infections that were once easily treatable with the right dose ...

Researchers at Umeå University have turned a protein from soil bacteria into a potential new weapon against colorectal cancer ...

Researchers are linking human activity to increased gene transfer from soil bacteria to humans. Soil plays a much bigger role in the spread of antibiotic resistance than one might imagine.

Scientists have discovered a 100-million-year-old insect-killing toxin produced by certain Streptomyces bacteria, revealing a new class of proteins with no harmful effects on humans. The toxin, named ...

Soil plays a much bigger role in the spread of antibiotic resistance than one might imagine. Surprisingly, the ground beneath us is packed with antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) - tiny codes that ...

(Beyond Pesticides, December 16, 2025) Through a literature review and data analysis of almost 2,000 soil samples, the authors of a recent study find negative effects on the presence of ...

Most bacteria cannot be cultured in the lab-and that's been bad news for medicine. Many of our frontline antibiotics originated from microbes, yet as antibiotic resistance spreads and drug pipelines ...

Scientists have identified a new class of insect-killing proteins, dubbed Streptomyces antiquus insecticidal proteins (SAIPs), in a common soil bacterium. Dating back over 100 million years, these ...