Researchers who work with bacteriophages -- viruses that eat bacteria -- had a pleasant and potentially very important surprise after treating samples to view under an electron microscope: they had ...

Attachment of a bacterial protein to the tips of phage tails produces non-infectious, tailless phages. “Many of these bacterial systems have been shown to be the evolutionary origin of different human ...

Bacteriophages, or phages, viruses that selectively target and infect bacteria, have drawn growing attention for their potential use in a host of biotechnological processes to benefit humankind, from ...

Amid the din from street musicians, panhandlers and baby-toting moms along Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, a petite woman wearing surgical gloves squats down on an embankment wall. She dips a sterile white ...

At the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)—Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), biologist Jessie Vandierendonck has been investigating new, alternative treatments to combat bacterial infections ...

Under a microscope, they appear like little lunar landers, or perhaps the spindly Martian tripods from HG Wells’ The War of the Worlds. But bacteriophages, or phages as they’re better known, are very ...