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.

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have developed a live-imaging system, Phollow, that tracks individual ...

He named it bacteriophage, derived from two Greek ... phages do have their downside. Rather than kill bacteria, some phages make them even more lethal. This happens, for example, with the ...

Bacteriophages are viruses that solely and selectively target and kill bacteria and are being proposed as an alternative to antibiotics, able to offer highly selective activity against pathogens ...

In the fight against antimicrobial-resistant (AMR) superbugs, an important weapon may just be hiding in some polluted stream, ...

A research team from Umeå University (Sweden) has uncovered a mechanism for how bacteria build up antiviral immunity against bacteriophages, separate from established anti-phage defense systems. This ...

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Bacteriophages are viruses that solely and selectively target and kill bacteria, and are being proposed as an alternative to antibiotics, able to offer highly-selective activity against pathogens ...

Studies have found that nearly a quarter of drugs that aren’t normally prescribed as antibiotics, such as medications used to treat cancer, diabetes and depression, can kill bacteria at doses ...