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

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 ...

It’s being called a “Hail Mary” for a Calgary man who suffers chronic pain – and so far, it seems to be working.

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 ...

Qeen Biotechnologies Inc., a leader in bacteriophage-based solutions, is proud to announce its role in providing ...

Their main goal is to produce more bacteriophages by injecting their genome into a bacterial host cell, using the host cell machinery to copy their genome, and expressing bacteriophage genes.

at day 15 – in the first placebo-controlled trial of the BX004 bacteriophage cocktail. The results from the phase 1 portion of the phase1/2a study have been described as “impressive” by ...

Many flies are plagued by parasitic wasps, which lay their eggs in fly larvae, turning them into surrogate wombs for wasp larvae. One common fly has successfully fought off its wasp predator by ...

A novel new test for bacteria in fluids makes it as easy as observing a color change to confirm the presence of disease-causing pathogens, promising much easier diagnostic tests and greater food ...

The University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg in Hempfield recently welcomed participants from more than 15 universities and ...

Virulence of Yersinia has been studied in my laboratory since 1980 and the approach has been to use the tools of modern molecular biology and genetics to elucidate the selected aspects of it.