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

In the continual arms race between parasites and their hosts, innovation was thought to be the key to a successful attack or ...

In the continual arms race between parasites and their hosts, innovation was thought to be the key to a successful attack or defense that one-ups the ...

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 ...

Within the human digestive tract are trillions of bacteria from thousands of different species. These bacteria form ...

("Armata" or the "Company"), a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on pathogen-specific bacteriophage therapeutics for antibiotic-resistant and difficult-to-treat bacterial ...

Their mirrored molecules could protect them from predation by other microorganisms and limit the effect of bacterial viruses, known as bacteriophages. Thus, mirror bacteria could outcompete ...

Triclosan is a common antibacterial chemical currently in widespread use in household and health care-related products. Triclosan was first introduced in 1965 and has been marketed as cloxifenol ...

The latter is manifested by a decreased population (phylotypes, i.e., genetically distinct bacterial subgroups that play different roles in skin health and disease) diversity of the predominant skin ...