In a new book, a science journalist recounts the story of a lifesaving treatment for infection that scientists broadly ...

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

Researchers from the Technion uncover a novel passive resistance mechanism in marine bacteria. By reducing tRNA levels, ...

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 ...

More recently, scientists have found that bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, may be useful for Pseudomonas aeruginosa treatment. Early research in labs (but not yet in humans ...

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

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

Bacteriophages, or “phages”, are viruses that can infect bacteria. With the number of bacteria that can evade antibiotics growing worryingly large, interest in using phages as therapies ...

Bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria) can wipe out bacteria-based bioreactors, costing huge amounts of time and money, but it is likely they wouldn’t infect mirror bacteria, because they ...

Some viruses only infect bacterial cells; they are known as bacteriophages (or phages), and they have real potential to defeat antibiotic-resistant superbugs. There are even cases in which very ...