Meet the jumbo phage. Scientists believe they’ve cracked the code on how its ‘secret handshakes’ act as a shield against the ...

A Cornell University-led collaboration has uncovered the equipment that enables bacteria to survive exposure to antibiotics: ...

The extensive use of antibiotics in health care has ... Both of these have to work in harmony, and the bacterial machinery that regulates this process is very complex — new components continue ...

Phages are viruses that attack bacteria by injecting their DNA, then usurping bacterial machinery to reproduce. Eventually, ...

Investigating Staphylococcus aureus – a leading cause of antibiotic resistance-associated infections and deaths – researchers ...

Evidence has emerged about the way bacteria become resistant to multiple drugs. The findings by a John Innes Centre research ...

You probably think “antibiotic resistance” means that a bacterial infection can’t be cured by any antibiotics. But the FDA ...

Now that the mechanism has been identified, the researchers are using chemical and mechanical manipulations to disrupt the process, so that antibiotics can work unimpeded. Some bacteria are more ...

Jumbo phages use a protein shield to protect their DNA from bacterial attacks. A special handshake controls which molecules enter.

Researchers in Australia have pinpointed a protein found in oysters as a way to make antibiotics more effective. As ...

so that antibiotics can work unimpeded. The research was led by Peng Chen, professor of chemistry. Co-lead authors are Wenyao Zhang, Ph.D. '23, and Christine Harper, Ph.D. '22. Some bacteria are ...

Pseudomonas bacteria infected by different mutations of a jumbo phage. The dot in the middle is the shield created by the phage to protect its DNA after it has infected the bacterial cell. Image by ...