Phages are viruses that attack bacteria by injecting their DNA, then usurping bacterial machinery to reproduce. Eventually, they make so many copies of themselves that the bacteria burst.

In contrast, gram-positive bacteria typically use processed oligopeptides ... researchers identified a comparable communication system in temperate bacterial phages—viruses that enter either the lytic ...

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

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." Scientists ...

They performed density gradient centrifugation to separate phages from bacterial lysates and found that the bacteria that expressed Bil produced a higher density band in the gradient. When the ...