By Hugo Francisco de Souza As warming accelerates glacier melt worldwide, researchers warn that ancient ice and modern ...

Variations in ARG abundance and dissemination potential under different straw incorporation and nitrogen treatments. Panels show ARG/MGE abundances, co-occurrence networks, and microbial hosts, ...

Globally, antibiotic resistance is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths each year, driven not only by medical misuse but also by agricultural practices. Livestock production relies heavily ...

Plastics entering natural environments quickly become coated with microbial biofilms called the 'plastisphere', known to be hotspots for antibiotic resistance genes, the team, including researchers ...

The study reveals that environmental stressors do not merely kill bacteria; they can also prime surviving cells to take up resistance genes more efficiently, raising concerns about how ...