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

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

(Photo by: GILLES/BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Bacteriophages (or just "phages") are an interesting area of science. Naturally occurring viruses that only attack bacteria ...

Urinary tract infections (UTIs), especially cystitis, are a common and frustrating health issue that affects half of all ...

Each form of bacteriophage is specialized to destroy one form of bacteria. In the test, phages — as they are called informally — find and attack the target bacteria in a sample, causing the bacteria ...

Some viruses only infect bacterial cells; they are known as bacteriophages (or phages), and they have ... "For example, each phage species might attack the bacterium in a different part of its ...

Researchers at Indiana University Bloomington have identified a new mechanism by which bacteria can eliminate their ...

Boyd English is the first patient in Western Canada to have the pain in his hip treated with bacteriophages. That’s using viruses to kill bacteria. English broke his hip in 1973 and got a hip ...

One common fly has successfully fought off its wasp predator by stealing a gene from bacteria that originated in bacteriophage ... to be the key to a successful attack or defense that one-ups ...