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

coli bacteria and a bacteriophage, M13, that can infect it. Previous studies generally believed that animal migration ...

Within the human digestive tract are trillions of bacteria from thousands of different species. These bacteria form ...

New research from the University of Guelph will focus on determining if bacteriophages can replace antibiotics to reduce the ...

A new study reveals how a single species of bacteria can sustain a diverse community of phage species, with implications for ...

Viruses can be used as tools in medicine, for example bacteriophages - viruses which infect bacteria. There should, in theory, be a bacteriophage capable of killing every single bacterium on Earth.

One alternative to antibiotics is phage therapy, which harnesses viruses to attack bacterial cells. Conceived over a century ...

Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology study reveals some species, such as monarch butterflies, less likely to contract ...

It was a method akin to what d'Hérelle outlined in his book "The Bacteriophage and the Phenomenon of Recovery," which Eliava translated. Originally from India, Biswas followed his family's ...