To conduct their research, the scientists say they infected populations of bacteria with naturally occurring phages that go dormant or genetically engineered non-dormant phages in separate flasks that ...

Then when people get infected, the only treatment is ... and they are overproduced during biofilm formation. So the phages wouldn't be there if the bacteria didn't harbour them within the genome ...

To understand how Bil works, Sorek’s team compared phage progeny from infected bacteria with and without the system. They performed density gradient centrifugation to separate phages from bacterial ...

Phages are viruses that attack bacteria by ... it involves fighting one infection with another. First a human gets infected ...

The CDC estimates that each year at least 2 million people in the United States become infected with bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics ... Use of bacteriophages to combat antibiotic-resistant ...

In a new study, researchers at Umeå University, Sweden, show that the emergence of resistance can be understood in the mechanism of how bacteria build up defenses against being infected by viruses.

Many bacteria contain retrons, DNA sequences which code for enzymes that transcribe ... The effect was due to the retron-equipped cells’ tendency to self-destruct if they became infected. “It sounds ...

The friendly viruses, known as bacteriophages (phages), are viruses that selectively target and kill their host bacteria, playing a crucial role in regulating bacterial populations and influencing ...

People may become infected with Nocardia bacteria when they inhale dust containing the microbes or they have a cut or scrape that comes in contact with contaminated soil or water. Nocardiosis is ...