Gut microbiota plays a critical role in childhood obesity by influencing energy metabolism, inflammation, and appetite ...

The phage therapy market is experiencing significant growth due to the increasing prevalence of antibiotic-resistant infections and the growing interest in alternative treatments. Advances in ...

Imagine a city under constant threat from invaders. The city's defense system deploys a sophisticated anti-missile defense ...

Thousands of treated patients support the potential of phage therapy, but limited knowledge of this technique and its ...

We found that this bacteriophage has different fibrils—or 'legs'—and receptors on them that recognize bacteria," added Oksana Kotovskaya, a co-author of the work and a Ph.D. student of the ...

Bacteriophages, or “phages”, are viruses that can infect bacteria. With the number of bacteria that can evade antibiotics growing worryingly large, interest in using phages as therapies ...

Researchers at Indiana University Bloomington have identified a new mechanism by which bacteria can eliminate their ...

The solution teems with bacteriophages, viruses resembling tiny rocket ships. These benign microbes exclusively dock onto and destroy bacteria, and your infection clears in a matter of days.

coli bacteria and a bacteriophage, M13, that can infect it. Previous studies generally believed that animal migration accelerates the spread of viruses. However, new research has found that ...

Particularly in the fight against antibiotic resistance, the new findings from the University of Copenhagen could lead to enhanced efficacy of ...