The research, published in Science Advances, brought together scientists from Otago and the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology. The team closely examined the molecular structure of Bas63, a ...

Scientists at the Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA) have carried out a comprehensive analysis of several viromes from different habitats to explore whether bacteriophages (viruses that ...

Disappointed in your answer regarding infectious diseases. Ten million annual deaths by 2050—not! Bacteriophages to the rescue. Maybe you should answer the question: What are bacteriophages? —Jerry ...

Before the advent of antibiotics in the 1920s, bacteriophages represented our best bet at fending off life-threatening bacteria. Fast-forward a century, and the looming specter of antimicrobial ...

Martha Clokie (left) is a Professor of microbiology at the University of Leicester (UK), where she runs the first Centre for Phage Research in the UK. Her research is focused on different aspects of ...

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 ...

Researchers used a bacteriophage, a bacteria-killing virus found in a pond, to cure a Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection a patient contracted in his chest after open heart surgery, according to a case ...

Diane Schaak has launched a company called MicroStealth Technologies, which is a notable achievement considering she didn't start undergraduate school until her three children were grown and on the ...

Imagine that the next time you catch a stomach bug and antibiotics fail to work, you knock back a vial of clear liquid. The solution teems with bacteriophages, viruses resembling tiny rocket ships.