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 ...

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

Bacteriophage (phage) are obligate intracellular viruses that specifically infect bacteria and thus exhibit both lytic and lysogenic phases to their lifecycles. The differences between the lytic and ...

Fig. 1 | Engineering bacteriophage-based antibacterial agents. Cytophage has developed a versatile technology for the rapid engineering of traits, such as lytic, structural, attachment and other ...

Professor Alice Roberts talks bacteriophages: viruses that infect the bacteria that infect us. With the rise of antibiotic resistance they are a potential weapon against infection. Show more ...

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

Aims: Novel anticancer strategies have employed bacteriophages as drug carriers and display platforms for anticancer agents; however, bacteriophage-based platforms maintain their natural ...