The newly described Panoptes bacterial immune system detects phage evasion by sensing the loss of nucleotide signals that ...

Humans throughout history have invented a variety of ways to fight back against troublesome bacteria. But bacteria live in a ...

Bacteriophage T7, a virus that preys on E. coli, becomes a more effective killer after spending time aboard the International Space Station, according to new research from University of ...

“This is one of the most common forms of bacterial immunity, so when we finally figured it out, it was a total eureka moment, ...

The American startup Radical Numerics announced that AI-designed bacteriophages have been administered to a human for the ...

Bacteriophages, or viruses that infect bacteria, have a fiendishly simple purpose in life: attach to a bacterial cell, inject ...

Scientists are increasingly interested in harnessing phages as alternatives to antibiotics and as tools for engineering microbiomes, but traditional techniques for understanding which bacteria a phage ...

Some viruses only infect bacterial cells; they are known as bacteriophages (or phages), and they have real potential to defeat antibiotic-resistant superbugs. There are even cases in which very ...