Weizmann Institute researchers have used AI and experimental biology to identify three new families of proteins that viruses ...

The genomes of phages - viruses that infect bacteria - are largely composed of "dark matter": genes that encode proteins ...

Researchers isolated a phage of the Microviridae family from human feces, representing the smallest phage infecting the gut ...

Phages, viruses that thrive by infecting bacteria, have long been mooted as a potential replacement for antibiotics. But where antibiotics pose the problem of the bacteria they target mutating into ...

Steffanie Strathdee and her husband Tom Patterson fishing in Haida Gwaii, British Columbia in August 2023. Tom recovered from a life-threatening superbug infection after receiving phage therapy in ...

Reviewed by Michael Greenwood, M.Sc. In phage-display, a gene encoding the surface protein of a bacteriophage is replaced with a gene encoding a novel protein. The technique can be used in drug ...

With the rapid development of antibiotics in the 1930s, phage therapy—using viruses known as bacteriophages or phages to tackle bacterial infections—fell into oblivion. But as the current rise in ...

A preclinical study led by Monash University scientists has found that using a combination of phages and antibiotics may be far more effective against bacterial infections than using the agents ...

Every living thing on the planet plays host to viruses, and bacteria are no exception. Bacteriophages—or just “phages” to those in the know—are the viruses that attack bacteria. And we are in dire ...

There’s nothing retro about retrons, which are bacterial molecules that produce DNA. Although retrons ordinarily serve an immune function in bacteria, they can, upon modification, acquire a genetic ...