Recent research on phages—bacteria-infecting viruses—reveals that the number and interactions of phages during infection impact…
Browsing: Bacteriophage
New research details long-sought mechanisms and structures. Bacterial infections present major hurdles in both agriculture…
In the early 20th century, antibiotics gained widespread recognition as an effective treatment for bacterial…
Bacteriophages, also called phages, are viruses that infect and kill bacteria, their natural hosts. But…
The Mariana Trench, the deepest place on Earth, descends almost 11,000 meters (36,000 feet) at…
Extremely long tail provides a window into how bacteria-infecting viruses assemble. A recent study in…
Researchers are utilizing the gene-editing technology CRISPR to modify the viruses that have evolved to…
Viruses have a bad reputation. They are responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic and a long…
A Berkeley Lab-led team is digging into the bizarre bacteria-produced nanomachines that could fast-track microbiome…
A new liquid-cell technology allows scientists to see living biological materials and systems in three…
Synthetic biologists have been able to encode a kind of rewritable memory directly into DNA,…