Bacteriophages (viruses that invade bacteria and can kill them) have gained renewed interest as part of measures to combat the growing tide of antimicrobial resistance. This well-documented phenomenon ...

Samuel Kilcher, Patrick Studer, Christina Muessner, Jochen Klumpp, Martin J. Loessner, Cross-genus rebooting of custom-made, synthetic bacteriophage genomes in L-form bacteria, Proceedings of the ...

Engineered bacteriophages may offer a novel strategy for anticancer therapy in conjunction with antibacterial protection.

Of course, Man has long reimagined the bacteriophage as a tool for everything from antibiotic alternatives (see what’s called phage therapy, a century old idea) to FDA-approved food sprays.

The Andhra phage Image credit: Dokland lab Cryo-electron microscopy by University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers has exposed the structure of a bacterial virus with unprecedented detail. This is ...

Artist rendering of bacteriophages. Image courtesy of the University of Texas. As antibiotic-resistant bacteria, like MRSA and resistant strains of tuberculosis and gonorrhea, become more prevalent, ...

Phage therapy is a potential treatment for bacterial infections. As an alternative to antibiotics, it has some promise, but more research is needed.

Enrollment has begun in an early-stage clinical trial evaluating bacteriophage therapy in adults with cystic fibrosis (CF) who carry Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) in their lungs. The ...