Thousands of treated patients support the potential of phage therapy, but limited knowledge of this technique and its ...

A bacteriophage is a type of virus that infects bacteria. In fact, the word "bacteriophage" literally means "bacteria eater," because bacteriophages destroy their host cells. All bacteriophages ...

Imagine a city under constant threat from invaders. The city's defense system deploys a sophisticated anti-missile defense ...

As humans, we often focus on viruses and bacteria because of their role in causing various, sometimes severe, diseases.

Viral reverse transcriptase (RT) plays a critical role in replication (e.g., retroviruses, that reverse transcribe RNA ...

coli bacteria and a bacteriophage, M13, that can infect it. Previous studies generally believed that animal migration accelerates the spread of viruses. However, new research has found that ...

Researchers from the Technion uncover a novel passive resistance mechanism in marine bacteria. By reducing tRNA levels, ...

plays a critical role in replication (e.g., retroviruses, that reverse transcribe RNA templates into complementary DNA) and genome mutations (e.g., diversity-generating retroelements in ...

Observing the interactions between bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria) and their bacteria hosts. The project utilizes genomics to observe bacteriophage abundance, important genes within ...

Bacteriophages, or “phages”, are viruses that can infect bacteria. With the number of bacteria that can evade antibiotics growing worryingly large, interest in using phages as therapies ...