University of Toronto researchers have discovered nine new genes used by bacteria to protect themselves against ...

University of Toronto researchers have discovered nine new genes used by bacteria to protect themselves against phages - ...

A newly developed laboratory tool can, within hours, help to identify specific viruses which can be used to destroy variants ...

Scientists took 10 years to figure out how one type of superbug gains its ability to infect diverse bacterial species. When ...

The Human Virome Program will analyse samples from thousands of volunteers in an effort to understand how viruses affect ...

"Naming this phage after Raz is my way of honoring his ... according to the statement. Phages are viruses that precisely target and kill bacteria, which can offer “a potential solution to ...

Researchers are investigating whether certain viruses known as bacteriophages, or phages, which specifically infect bacteria but not human cells, affect the development of type 1 diabetes in young ...

“I’m expecting tens of millions of species,” said Evelien Adriaenssens, a phage biologist at the Quadram Institute in Norwich, England. The viruses that infect human cells have turned out to ...

Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria. Some phages follow a lytic life cycle where they inject their DNA into the host cell and hijack its mechanisms to reproduce. When the number of ...

A newly developed laboratory tool can, within hours, help to identify specific viruses which can be used to destroy variants of the dangerous pathogenic bacteria Staphylococcus aureus.

"Naming this phage after Raz is my way of honoring his memory — not ... according to the statement. Phages are viruses that precisely target and kill bacteria, which can offer “a potential solution to ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have taken the lead on a project to investigate whether certain viruses known as bacteriophages, or phages, which specifically infect bacteria but not ...