MIT researchers discovered a bacterial defense system, CmdTAC, that disrupts protein production to combat phage infections.

“The field of phage biology has seen an explosion over the last decade because more researchers are realizing the ...

Like humans and other complex multicellular organisms, single-celled bacteria can fall ill and fight off viral infections. A ...

In culture dishes as well as mice, this phage cocktail made antibiotic-resistant Klebsiella bacteria more likely to be ...

Hartmann recommends soaking shower heads in vinegar or basic soap and water instead of bleach to clean them and remove calcium buildup. Regularly replacing toothbrushes or toothbrush heads is also ...

DEV is part of an experimental phage cocktail developed to eradicate P. aeruginosa infection in pre-clinical studies. A peculiar feature of DEV is the presence of a 3,398-amino acid virion-associated ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Phage Wars Phage Wars is a game that simulates viruses competing over host cells. Each virus starts contained to a single cell. The player virus can ...

Unexpectedly, Cingolani and Briani’s study revealed the virion-associated RNA polymerase is part of a genome ejection motor ...

In an effort to illustrate that genomic surveillance can build the foundation for scaleable precision phage therapy, an international collaboration analyzed the genomes of over 15,000 cases of ...

DEV is part of an experimental phage cocktail developed to eradicate P. aeruginosa infection in pre-clinical studies. A peculiar feature of DEV is the presence of a 3,398-amino acid virion ...

They target bacteria. The microorganisms collected in the study are bacteriophage, or "phage," a type of virus that infects and replicates inside of bacteria. Although researchers know little ...