Some bacterial-infecting viruses use ‘sponges’ to mop up defence molecules, but bacteria can fight back by responding when a ...

Viruses are so simple in their structure, they may not even qualify as living things. Yet, they are ruthless in their robotic ...

Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from the Pasteur Institute and the University of Lorraine, France, have uncovered ...

Researchers have developed a product that uses bacterial viruses, known as ‘bacteriophages’, to combat ...

Earth’s most diverse biological entities are the viruses that infect bacteria, called bacteriophages (phages). They are rich ...

Rem Capina spends many days with his son fishing on the banks of the Red River, but after hearing what the city announced on ...

The work, described in a preprint paper, has the potential to create new treatments and accelerate research into artificially ...

When becoming a new parent, you realise that there’s no shortage of advice about what to do and what to avoid. But when it ...

AI designed new bacteriophages that killed E. coli in lab tests, promising advances but raising safety concerns.

Scientists have for the first time used artificial intelligence to design viruses capable of killing harmful bacteria. In a ...

In one of the busiest hospitals in Melbourne, a potentially fatal epidemic of antibiotic-resistant germs compelled physicians ...