Antibiotic resistance is a global health challenge that could overtake cancer mortality within a few decades. In a new study, researchers show that the emergence of resistance can be understood in the ...

Antibiotic resistance is a global health challenge that could overtake cancer mortality within a few decades. In a new study, ...

In a growing global trend, bacteria are evolving new ways to maneuver around medical treatments for a variety of infections.

Phages are bacteria-specific viruses that play a critical role in ... “Capturing the potential of bacteriophages in addressing the looming antibiotic resistance crisis is the challenge we ...

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 ...

Bacteriophages are viruses that selectively target and kill bacteria. They are abundant, commonly occurring natural entities ...

‘Phage therapy’ uses naturally occurring viruses called bacteriophages (from the Greek meaning ‘bacteria-eaters’) to fight bacteria. The phages used in this therapy are harmless to people ...

Maria Sokolova, head of the Lise Meitner Research Group Bacteriophages at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, receives ...

In the study, Rossmann, along with Purdue researcher Timothy Baker and others at Purdue, and Anderson and his co-workers at Minnesota, used micro-imaging techniques – including X-ray crystallography ...

Andrew’s work has appeared in Eos and Science. View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. The M13 bacteriophage, a rod-shaped virus that infects bacteria, is adorned in a molecular coat, ...

Bacteriophages — viruses that infect bacteria — are locked in a constant arms race with their microbial hosts. A family of phages known as jumbo phages have evolved a remarkable strategy of ...