University of Exeter scientists studied chemical communication by phages (viruses that infect bacteria). The phages assessed ...

The responding phage enters lysogeny prematurely, sparing the bacterial host and reducing competition for the signaling phage’s own progeny.

All living things rely on information from their environment to make decisions, and now it turns out even viruses can learn ...

Bacteriophages, or phages for short, may be too small to see without an electron microscope, but they have enormous therapeutic potential. Given the bacteria-killing capabilities of phages, the most ...

In a first for Buffalo, bacteriophage therapy, which harnesses living viruses, sucessfully treated a patient with a chronic MRSA bacterial infection.

Systematic review details microbial and clinical response rates, safety of experimental tr ...

Antibiotics can destroy many types of bacteria, but increasingly, bacterial pathogens are gaining resistance to many commonly used types. As the threat of antibiotic resistance looms large, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Antibiotic-resistant infections, which have been on the rise for years, were the cause of more than 1.2 million ...

Soon after joining the faculty at the School of Dental Medicine in March 2020, Kathryn Kauffman, assistant professor of oral biology, created a laboratory to study the power of bacteriophages, also ...

Researchers identified hundreds of anti-CRISPR proteins in human gut phages, including a new dual-function family that blocks ...

The coronavirus pandemic has brought many challenges to the college classroom as instructors had to adapt in-person classes for a remote environment. However, these challenges created some interesting ...