MRSA

39 tourists swabbed door handles in 136 airports around 59 countries, finding that a deadly bug resistant to antimicrobial drugs and known to exist in India also exists in Paris, where it is rare. Credit: limaoscarjuliet/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

How Researchers Found That Tourists Accidentally Carried a Superbug from India to Paris

K.S. Parthasarathy 15/10/2016

MRSA develops resistance fast enough to keep specialists developing...

Viruses are a bigger part of our lives than we think, having infiltrated the DNA of many creatures during their evolution. Credit: slushpup/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

How Viruses Engineer their Way to Bringing Disease, and Also Life

Aswin Sai Narain Seshasayee 26/11/2015

In a manner not too different from societies and...