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

Bacteria are becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics. This "race" can lead to a situation where antibiotics will stop suppressing pathogenic bacteria. Bacteriophages, natural "predators" of ...

Shelby is an assistant editor for The Scientist. She earned her PhD from West Virginia University in immunology and ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The study, Streptomyces secretes a siderophore that sensitizes competitor bacteria to phage infection, was published Jan. 8, 2024 in Nature Microbiology. The first author is Zhiyu Zang ...

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