New insights into a "friendly virus" that could pave the way for cutting-edge treatments for the potentially fatal superbug C ...

Bacteriophages are viruses that selectively target and kill bacteria. They are abundant, commonly occurring natural entities ...

Now, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have shed new light on how bacteria protect themselves from certain phage ...

Bacteria steal DNA from silent viruses and use it like a memory bank. That memory helps them protect future generations.

To investigate the problem, Penadés and his team began searching for ways one type of superbug — a family of ...

Viruses of bacteria, known as bacteriophages, offer an alternative approach to antibiotics in treating multiresistant pathogens. The new tool could make an important contribution to future phage ...

a phage biologist at the Quadram Institute in Norwich, England. [ Bird flu ‘could very well become the next pandemic’, says Irish virologistOpens in new window ] The viruses that infect human ...

Secondary school students Misha Hegde and Mia Maurer are investigating whether special viruses, called bacteriophages, can be ...

Like people, bacteria get invaded by viruses. In bacteria, the viral invaders are called bacteriophages, derived from the Greek word for bacteria-eaters, or in shortened form, "phages." ...

Known as phage therapy, it uses viruses to kill harmful bacteria in difficult-to-treat infections. Read more at ...

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.