Within the human digestive tract are trillions of bacteria from thousands of different species. These bacteria form ...
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 ...
It’s being called a “Hail Mary” for a Calgary man who suffers chronic pain – and so far, it seems to be working.
Some viruses only infect bacterial cells; they are known as bacteriophages, and they have real potential to defeat antibiotic ...
The presence of human waste in sewage overflow or stormwater runoff that ultimately finds its way into rivers and lakes is a ...
New research from the University of Guelph will focus on determining if bacteriophages can replace antibiotics to reduce the ...
The presence of human waste in sewage overflow or stormwater runoffs that ultimately find their way into rivers and lakes is ...
Researchers studying the aphid uncovered a complicated story: The gene actually comes from a bacterial virus, or bacteriophage, that infects the bacteria that live inside the aphid. The bacteriophage ...
While the technology to create these organisms is still years away, many are worried about the impact of mirror bacteria.