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Antibiotic resistance genes can be passed around by bacteria in dust

Disease-causing bacteria living in dust can pass antibiotic resistance genes to one another, a study of samples of dust in public buildings suggests

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Tiny machines made of DNA origami may make antibiotics work better

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A common antibiotic seems to have a strange effect on our memories

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Ibuprofen has been linked to changes in bacteria in a lab experiment

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Ibuprofen and other common drugs may help antibiotic resistance spread

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London’s public spaces are rife with multidrug-resistant bacteria

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A type of antibiotics can cause hearing loss - and now we know why

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Feedback: The very British ethnography of queuing

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How do antibiotics work?

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How do antibiotics work?

Antibiotic resistance

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Antibiotic resistance

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Vegetables as well as meat could spread superbugs into food chain

Antibiotic-resistant microbes may be able to enter the human food chain via plants and vegetables as well as via meat, according to research in mice

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How antibiotic resistance is driven by pharmaceutical pollution

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Rational thinking is saving antibiotics – it could work on Brexit too

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The war against antibiotic resistance is finally turning in our favour

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Astronauts travelling to the moon and Mars risk dying from superbugs

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