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 ...

Bacteriophages articles from across Nature Portfolio Bacteriophages are infectious agents that comprise viruses that infect bacteria. Bacteriophages are widespread, abundant and very diverse.