Bacteria are becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics. This "race" can lead to a situation where antibiotics will stop ...

In the 1960s, Werner Arber observed a dramatic change in the bacteriophage DNA after it invaded these resistant strains of bacteria: It was degraded and cut into pieces. In an attempt to explain ...

The sheath forms a hollow tube through which the viral DNA/RNA is injected into the host cell and is surrounded by protective sheath proteins. At the bottom of the sheath is the base plate to which ...

Founder@Hoxton VC. Bacteriophage. A bacteriophage is constituted of a proteic envelope (called capsid), containing its ... [+] nucleic acid (DNA or RNA), and a tail. The tail includes a collar ...

We hear from Paul Hebert, the biologist behind the International Barcode of Life project – a global effort to classify the entire world’s species according to their DNA. Bristol researchers ...