A virus long dismissed as a scientific oddity has been found hiding in plain sight, and it may help fight dangerous bacteria, ...

A newly rediscovered virus may hold the secret to wiping out deadly, drug-resistant bacteria by empowering good microbes to ...

Scientists have long known that bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, live in our gut, but exactly what they do has ...

Scientists have discovered a new type of immune defense in E. coli bacteria that turns viral infection machinery against the virus itself. Named after the Chinese military strategist Kongming—who ...

Researchers have uncovered the atomic structure of the bacteriophage φTE, which infects and kills the plant pathogen Pectobacterium atrosepticum. Using cryo-electron microscopy, they revealed unique ...

The group sequenced a type of bacterium that is sometimes found in people with lung infections. They noticed that telomere ...

In 2012, researchers isolated a new virus that infects and kills this bacterium—a bacteriophage named φTE (phiTE). Now, for the first time, scientists have uncovered the atomic structure of ...

Scientists built a model that allows them to diminish phage communities from a mouse gut microbiome -- and then bring them back -- without affecting the bacteria. On a test run of their model, ...

In a small study, CF patients treated with the therapy saw a reduction in multidrug-resistant lung bacteria and improved lung ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, researchers have found that a little-understood virus lurking within harmful bacteria could be a surprising ally in the fight against antibiotic-resistant infections, ...

Hope that bacteriophages could represent a new therapeutic strategy for resistant bacterial infections has been bolstered by a study conducted by BiomX in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients.