More than a million people a year are already dying from infections caused by microbes that are resistant to treatment – it's known as the "silent pandemic". By 2050, that figure is projected to reach ...

The first antibiotics made once-deadly infections curable, and their early developers were lauded with a Nobel. But these miracle drugs soon revealed their Achilles heel: When antibiotics are overused ...

Episymbiotic Saccharibacteria TM7x modulates the susceptibility of its host bacteria to phage infection and promotes their coexistence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2024; 121 ...

A big part of current phage research is to identify these viruses and their host bacteria. The Gut Phage Database contains more than 140,000 phages, but that’s surely an underestimate.

Some things just go together in your belly: peanut butter and jelly, salt and pepper, bacteria and bacteria-eating viruses. For the bacterial species that inhabit your gut, there's a frenzy of ...

Bacteria protect themselves from phage infections by capturing genetic material from dormant temperate phages, forming a biological "memory" that is passed to their offspring.

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

By exposing the phage mixture to a series of isolated Klebsiella bacteria, the researchers gave the phage the opportunity to evolve. This improved the ability of the cocktail to kill Klebsiella.

A big part of current phage research is to identify these viruses and their host bacteria. The Gut Phage Database contains more than 140,000 phages, but that’s surely an underestimate.

Called phage therapy, it uses bacteria-infecting viruses called bacteriophages, or simply "phages," which typically kill the germs by invading their cells and splitting them open from the inside.

In only three weeks, this accelerated arms race between bacteria (Escherichia coli) and viruses (bacteriophage, or “phage”) results in several generations of evolutionary adaptations.

"We see how coevolution between bacteria and phage drive the emergence of a highly complicated ecological network. Evolution doesn't have to be slow and gradual as Darwin thought." ...