Scientists have discovered a new type of immune defense in E. coli bacteria that turns viral infection machinery against the ...

Some things just go together in your belly: peanut butter and jelly, salt and pepper, bacteria and bacteria-eating viruses.

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 ...

Bacteria, which are susceptible to infection by bacteriophages, often carry multiple genes encoding anti-phage defense ...

Clinicians have used phages to treat bacterial infections since the early 20 th century. Although the advent and mass production of antibiotics caused a decline in phage therapy, the recent rise in ...

However, the bacteria themselves are vulnerable to infection by a type of virus called bacteriophages, or just phages. Throughout evolution, bacteria and phages have undergone an arms race in ...

They have begun to look deeper into an intriguing class of large bacteriophage known as “jumbo phage” that exhibit extraordinary features as possible new agents for bacterial infection treatments.

Bacteriophages, commonly known as phages, are viruses that infect bacteria and replicate within them, causing cell lysis and, ultimately, bacterial death. Unlike traditional antibiotics ...

Research on the gut microbiome has focused mainly on bacteria, but bacteriophages and fungi play critical roles as well, with significant influences on health and disease.