Antibiotic-resistant bacteria have been fighting a real war against science. They’re getting pushed back, but they’re not ...

As vital as vaccines are, they can be frustratingly selective about their targets. Scientists from institutions across the US ...

Long before humans became interested in killing bacteria, viruses were on the job. Viruses that attack bacteria, termed “phages” (short for bacteriophage), were first identified by their ability to ...

Scientists have made the first step towards creating new species in the lab. Researchers have used artificial intelligence to create a new virus to attack a colony of the deadly E.coli bacteria. The ...

Bacteria often go dormant to avoid being wiped out by antibiotics or other threats, which makes treatment difficult. Now scientists have discovered a virus that can attack these sleeping bugs, ...

Bacteria have an array of strategies to counter viral invasion, but how they first spot a stranger in their midst has long been a mystery. There's no organism on earth that lives free of threat -- ...

Prof. Rotem Sorek and the Phages, viruses that attack bacteria. Phages, viruses that attack bacteria, have a head and a tail. The head contains the phage’s genetic material and the tail is used to ...

A vaccine usually trains your immune system to recognize one target. Here, the target is basically “anything that doesn’t belong in the lungs.

Jumbo phages belong to a group of viruses that attack bacteria. They inject their DNA and then reproduce by taking over the cell’s DNA-copying machinery. Eventually, a phage makes so many copies of ...

Viruses may get a bad rap, but some of them can be helpful to fight off bacterial infections. Scientists at ETH Zurich have demonstrated a new way to use them to diagnose which bacteria is causing a ...