Like people, bacteria get invaded by viruses. In bacteria, the viral invaders are called bacteriophages, derived from the ...

Scientists took 10 years to figure out how one type of superbug gains its ability to infect diverse bacterial species. When ...

Fairburn explains that in the absence of an active anti-phage defence, viral infections inhibit bacterial growth and cause a ...

University of Toronto researchers have discovered nine new genes used by bacteria to protect themselves against ...

In future experiments, the scientists aim to learn more about how CRISPR systems protect bacteria cells from viruses that don’t go dormant, Modell says. “We know CRISPR systems are one of the ...

Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria. Some phages follow a lytic life cycle where they inject their DNA into the host cell and hijack its mechanisms to reproduce. When the number of ...

Through a series of experiments, Griffith established that the virulence of the S strain was destroyed by heating the bacteria. Thus, he was surprised to find that mice died when they were ...

entities that could cause an infection and pass through a filter small enough to exclude almost all bacteria. While the size of Mimivirus certainly stretches our common perceptions of viruses ...

Speaker one In our experiment we’re going to investigate ... are biocides that kill microorganisms such as bacteria, viruses, and fungi.

Luckily for the average person, the Earth is covered in different germs, viruses, and other obstacles ... 800 surfaces across the space station for bacteria. They found a large population of ...