View details and apply for this Postdoctoral Researcher Associate or Fellow vacancy in Cornwall. Postdoctoral Research Associate / Fellow This job is part of an Advanced Research + Inventio...

The Cluster of Excellence EXC 2124 “Controlling Microbes to Fight Infections” (CMFI) at the University of Tübingen invites applications for Indepen...

The Medical Research Council (MRC) unpauses curiosity driven research funding and improves the funding process.

Antimicrobial Resistance Research

Researchers at King’s College London have shown that a widely used cardiac arrest risk score can be applied before patients reach hospital, enabling paramedics to assess the risk of brain injury at an...

Study find nitazenes, which are up to 500 times stronger than heroin, can degrade significantly in portmortem blood samples

Staff, students and community partners have celebrated public and community engagement at the King’s Engaged Research Awards ceremony.

The permeability of bacterial porins is dynamically regulated by periplasmic proton and potassium concentrations, altering antibiotic resistance.

Dr Freya Harrison

Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.

A new diagnostic test that can detect a broad range of microorganisms in a single sample and give same-day results has been shown to improve the diagnosis and treatment of patients with…

The antibiotic polymyxin B requires bacterial metabolic activity to cause sufficient damage to the outer membrane to access the inner membrane, which it permeabilizes via an energy-independent mechanism to kill the cell.

A study reveals a gut–brain sensory pathway through which the microbial component flagellin activates neuropod cells in the colon to signal the brain and reduce feeding in mice.

Evidence-based antibiotic prescribing for urinary tract infections (UTIs) would increase treatment success and improve antibiotic stewardship. Current…

A report from King’s College London sets out the stark reality people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) face in securing diagnosis and accessing care.

The first clinical trial to test whether adults allergic to peanuts can be desensitised has shown great success with two thirds of the cohort consuming the equivalent of four peanuts without reacting.

Lactobacilli and Gardnerella vaginalis are key bacteria within the vaginal microbiota, significantly impacting its chemical environment. Accurately reproducing vaginal bacteria metabolism in vitro is ...

King’s is making a major strategic investment into driving AI activity across our nine academic Faculties. Our ambition is to accelerate growth in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data-driven research...

We are delighted to announce exciting new opportunities to join our dynamic and interdisciplinary scientific community, as part of a major expansion of science across King’s.

Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 20 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41579-025-01155-0In this Review, Ahmad et al. examine how antibiotics influence bacterial metabolism and how metabolism, in turn, affects drug efficacy and the emergence and…

Diabetic infections are a reservoir for the emergence and proliferation of antibiotic resistance in Staphylococcus aureus.

The King’s Engaged Research Awards ceremony brought together staff, students and community partners to celebrate public and community engagement with research at King’s.

The King’s Engaged Research Awards ceremony brought together staff, students and community partners to celebrate public and community engagement with research at King’s.

Bacteroides vulgatus, a gut bacterium, promotes GLP-1 secretion through its metabolite, pantothenate, inhibiting sugar preference in mice.

Candida auris is an emerging pathogenic fungus causing outbreaks of invasive disease in healthcare facilities worldwide with the majority of clinical isolates demonstrating intrinsic resistance to mul...

Antibiotic treatment significantly disrupts the gut microbiome and promotes vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) intestinal colonisation. These disruptions lead to the intestine acting as a reservo...