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

Like people, bacteria get invaded by viruses. In bacteria, the viral invaders are called bacteriophages, derived from the ...

"If we understand the defense mechanisms activated by the bacteria in response to phage infections, we can develop methods to bypass them." For the study, the researchers selected the bacterium ...

Scientists continue to learn more and more about bacteria that exists naturally inside our gut. Researchers at Virginia Tech ...

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The Human Virome Program will analyse samples from thousands of volunteers in an effort to understand how viruses affect ...

It is a great pleasure to announce that Professor Robert T. Schooley, from the University of California, San Diego (USA), will be a keynote speaker at the 8th World Congress on Targeting Phage ...

Their potential as antibacterial agents was appreciated almost immediately, with the first 'phage therapy' trials predating Fleming's discovery of penicillin by approximately a decade. In this ...

Future Microbiol. 2013;8(6):769-783. The use of phage cocktails can be conceptually differentiated into: efforts that seek to broaden the utility of phage formulations, that is, what diseases or ...