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 ...

Like people, bacteria get invaded by viruses. In bacteria, the viral invaders are called bacteriophages, derived from the ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

Bacteria get invaded by viruses called phages. Scientists are studying how bacteria use CRISPR to defend themselves from phages, which will inform new phage-based treatments for bacterial ...

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.

Scientists continue to learn more and more about bacteria that exists naturally inside our gut. Researchers at Virginia Tech ...

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." ...