The time-development of species communities cannot be understood solely through ecological interactions or environmental ...

Dedicated May 24, 2005, at Rutgers The State University of New Jersey. Waksman and his students, in their laboratory at Rutgers University, established the first screening protocols to detect ...

There were fresh reinforcements for the “wonder” drug streptomycin (against which some bugs are fighting back): ¶ Dr. Selman A. Waksman, streptomycin’s discoverer, produced a sister drug named grisein ...

People are always asking greying Microbiologist Selman Abraham Waksman, 60, how he discovered the wonder drug streptomycin in 1943. Modest Dr. Waksman (rhymes with phlox-man) has a stock answer which ...

(Beyond Pesticides, January 24, 2023) Oral arguments begin this week in a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) approval of the antibiotic streptomycin as a pesticide on ...

Bacteria modify their ribosomes when exposed to widely used antibiotics, according to research published today in Nature Communications. The subtle changes might be enough to alter the binding site of ...

Researchers have discovered toxic protein particles, shaped like umbrellas, that soil bacteria known as Streptomyces secrete to squelch competitors, especially others of their own species. The ...

SAN FRANCISCO— The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday ruled in favor of farmworkers and public-interest groups’ call for reversal of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s approval of ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is at once a textbook disease and a political reality: a bacterial process that is microbiologically well understood — and yet cannot simply be “treated away” globally. Derek Sloan, ...