As bacteria become increasingly (and worryingly) resistant to antibiotics, scientists are recruiting bacteriophages—a bacteria’s sworn evolutionary enemy—to fight against these troublesome “superbugs.

A detailed 3D map of a bacteria-hunting virus reveals ancient origins and new promise against superbugs. A research team led by the University of Otago – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka has created a highly ...

When we think of viruses, we mainly think of human diseases, particularly those that are difficult to deal with. However, there is a class of viruses known as bacteriophages that do not infect humans ...

The concept of bacteriophage therapy explores using viruses that specifically infect and kill bacteria as a treatment for bacterial infections. Identification and engineering of phages that ...

Researchers from New England Biolabs and Yale University have created a system for engineering the first fully synthetic bacteriophages that could help with future clinical development of phage ...

SANTIAGO, Chile--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PhageLab, a biotechnology company developing bacteriophage-based applications to seek and destroy multidrug resistant bacteria in the livestock industry, announced ...

The gut bacterium Bacteroides fragilis has long presented researchers with a paradox. It has been associated with colorectal cancer, yet it also lives quite happily in most healthy people. A study by ...