Importance of Phage Ecology Understanding species diversity is a fundamental question in ecology and evolutionary biology. A major factor enabling diversity, from birds to plants to bacteria, is ...

Published online December 13 in the journal Science, a new study offers the first evidence that a single bacterial species, the host of a phage, can maintain a diverse community of competing phage ...

An obscure group of phages offers insights into elements of microbial warfare—and blueprints for new antibiotics.

Published in the journal Science, a new study offers the first evidence that a single bacterial species, the host of a phage, ...

In a recent study, however, Yale scientists describe a new method for quantifying the host-attachment dynamics of several phage species—including some that target key bacterial pathogens ...

But virologists know little about how phages persist in the populations of bacterial cells they infect, hampering the development of phage therapies. Published online December 12 in the journal ...

In comparison to broad-spectrum antibiotics, viruses used for personalized phage therapy infect only targeted pathogenic bacteria without harming beneficial species, which reduces the risk of phage ...

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If every antibiotic has failed to help you get over an infection, phage therapy (which is not yet FDA-approved in the U.S.) may be able to do the job instead. These viruses can be life- saving.