Within the human digestive tract are trillions of bacteria from thousands of different species. These bacteria form ...
It’s being called a “Hail Mary” for a Calgary man who suffers chronic pain – and so far, it seems to be working.
The principle: using viruses, known as phages or bacteriophages, which only infect bacteria, to specifically target and eliminate bacteria that are pathogenic to humans. One major challenge is ...
Some viruses only infect bacterial cells; they are known as bacteriophages, and they have real potential to defeat antibiotic ...
Bacteriophage (phage) are obligate intracellular viruses that specifically infect bacteria and thus exhibit both lytic and lysogenic phases to their lifecycles. The differences between the lytic and ...
New research from the University of Guelph will focus on determining if bacteriophages can replace antibiotics to reduce the ...
SHENZHEN -- A Chinese research team from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) under the Chinese Academy of ...
The presence of human waste in sewage overflow or stormwater runoff that ultimately finds its way into rivers and lakes is a ...