In the fight against antimicrobial-resistant (AMR) superbugs, an important weapon may just be hiding in some polluted stream, ...

For more than a decade, Yale’s Benjamin Chan has scoured these and other sites across the world, from villages in sub-Saharan Africa to a wastewater plant in New Haven, collecting what are known as ...

Bacteriophages are infectious agents that comprise viruses that infect bacteria. Bacteriophages are widespread, abundant and very diverse. Viral diversity on fresh vegetables is largely unknown.

Beyond its role in the initiation of digestion, the oral microbiome appears to be key to maintaining both oral and systemic ...

Phytobiomes Journal, published by The American Phytopathological Society, is pleased to announce the publication of its special Focus Issue on the Phytovirome, a critical exploration of the diversity, ...

Gene editing and many other useful biotechnology tools came from studies of bacteria fighting off viral invaders. But ...

Antibiotic resistance is a global health threat that could supplant cancer mortality within a few decades. Researchers at ...

A small GMP facility should be set up along the lines of the UK’s Catapult network of technology and innovation hubs that could be used by phage developers who cannot afford to make the level of ...

Bacteriophages are viruses that solely and selectively target and kill bacteria and are being proposed as an alternative to antibiotics, able to offer highly selective activity against pathogens ...

Megan Tierney Baldridge, MD, PhD, an associate professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Medicine ...

One of the largest phage viruses, the T4 bacteriophage, is around half the size of the mimivirus and has a fraction of the number of base pairs (69,000). The mimivirus is around the same size as the ...