Rice University bioscientist Yousif Shamoo has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of ...

Scientists have found that mutations of seemingly small consequence can turn out to be game changers in the bacterial fight against antibiotic drugs. The discovery came during an exhaustive, ...

HOUSTON -- (Sept. 21, 2009) -- Rice University biochemists are developing a system of "evolutionary forecasting" to better understand the mechanisms of antibiotic resistance. "Our goal is to show ...

Bioscientists develop a microfluidic platform for high-throughput studies of how bacteria evolve antibiotic resistance. A new experimental platform developed at Rice University promises to speed up ...