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 ...

Antibiotic resistance is a serious global issue. It occurs when bacteria become immune to antibiotic treatments, making ...

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

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 ...

The presence of human waste in sewage overflow or stormwater runoffs that ultimately find their way into rivers and lakes is a major public health hazard. Conventionally, testing for fecal ...

Some viruses only infect bacterial cells; they are known as bacteriophages, and they have real potential to defeat antibiotic ...

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 runoff that ultimately finds its way into rivers and lakes is a ...

While the technology to create these organisms is still years away, many are worried about the impact of mirror bacteria.