Phage - the friendly virus Phage science may sound new and exciting, but it is actually a century old idea stemming from the discoveries of Felix d'Hérelle and Frederick Twort in the 1910s.

Phage-related chromosomal islands, which include theStaphylococcus aureuspathogenicity islands, often encode virulence factors and co-opt a helper phage to spread to other cells. Richard Novick ...

By tracking plasmids that were selectively depleted, we identified over 100 candidate phage trigger- E. coli pairs. Two phage trigger proteins were investigated in detail, revealing a novel antiphage ...

The Phage Whisperer Biswajit Biswas drew a syringe full of phage and injected it into his laboratory mice, one after another. The mice weren't sick, so he wasn't using phages as medicine. He just ...