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 ...

Scientists at ETH Zurich hypothesized that there must be some phage species that can attack bacteria in this dormant state. Now, after years of searching, they’ve identified just such a phage ...

A new study from scientists at New York University, Yale University, and elsewhere has demonstrated that several phage species can coexist stably on a genetically uniform strain of E. coli.

The findings have been reported in Science. In this work, researchers determined that several phage species were able to stably coexist in a single, uniform strain of Escherichia coli. Although the ...

Phage therapy has unique advantages that make it highly attractive for use against AMR bacteria. First, phages can evolve to target AMR bacterial species. Phages, unlike antibiotics, are ...

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 ...

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 ...

Published 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 species.