New insights into a "friendly virus" that could pave the way for cutting-edge treatments for the potentially fatal superbug C ...

Fairburn explains that in the absence of an active anti-phage defence, viral infections inhibit bacterial growth and cause a ...

When viruses infect a cell ... new tools to study it in more detail than ever before. “The field of phage biology has seen an explosion over the last decade because more researchers are ...

University of Toronto researchers have discovered nine new genes used by bacteria to protect themselves against ...

A newly developed laboratory tool can, within hours, help to identify specific viruses which can be used to destroy variants ...

Now, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have shed new light on how bacteria protect themselves from certain phage ...

Bacteria steal DNA from silent viruses and use it like a memory bank. That memory helps them protect future generations.

A computer virus that rewrites the executable file it targets rather than attaching itself to the file and running along with it. See virus. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other ...

"Naming this phage after Raz is my way of honoring his ... according to the statement. Phages are viruses that precisely target and kill bacteria, which can offer “a potential solution to ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Phage Wars Phage Wars is a game that simulates viruses competing over host cells. Each virus starts contained to a single cell. The player virus can ...