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

However, an equally fascinating but lesser-known phenomenon is the ongoing battle between bacteria and bacteriophages—viruses that specifically target and infect bacteria. This struggle, which takes ...

Discover the differences between food poisoning vs the stomach bug, and how to relieve the GI symptoms with both, according ...

In a new study, researchers at Indiana University Bloomington have discovered a new way that bacteria can kill its ...

With the rise of antibiotics in the 1930s, phage therapy (the use of viruses called bacteriophages to fight bacterial infections) was abandoned. Today, the increase in antibiotic resistance makes ...

CHARLES BERGQUIST: I see. So when you’re not celebrating, part of your lab work involves bacteriophages, viruses that hunt bacteria. Would it be possible to come up with a bacteriophage that targets ...

According to the new paper, researchers fear that mirror bacteria could be able to evade natural predators like phage viruses and microscopic protists, or even immune cells in our bodies ...

This study introduces smRandom-seq2, a high-throughput and high-resolution single-microbe RNA sequencing method, which ...