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 ...

A bacteriophage is a type of virus that infects ... Bacteriophages occasionally remove a portion of their host cells' bacterial DNA during the infection process and then transfer this DNA into ...

In the study, a group of scientists led by the head of the laboratory Artem Isaev analyzed the composition of one of the therapeutic phage cocktails and discovered a new type of bacteriophage—it ...