The main function of CRISPR-Cas systems, the revolutionary tool scientists now employ to edit genes, is to defend bacteria ...

From medicine to agriculture and aquaculture, bacteriophages are poised to have a huge global impact. As viruses which target only bacterial cells, they hold promise as an alternative to antibiotics, ...

A survey of a waterway on Wurundjeri land has led to the discovery of new viruses that kill the superbug Klebsiella. With estimates that superbugs will kill at least 10 million people a year across ...

Researchers have discovered that a group of viruses known to infect an agriculturally important plant pathogen has remained ...

A group of military researchers recently discovered 14 new bacteria-eating viruses, or bacteriophages, and gave them Texas-themed names. Microbiologist Yoon Hwang and his colleagues at the Naval ...

A research team at McMaster University has developed a targeted approach to treating inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) using bacteriophages, viruses that infect specific bacteria, to disarm harmful ...

A bacteriophage is a virus that infects and replicates within bacteria. Image by Dr. Victor Padilla-Sanchez, PhD – Own work (CC BY-SA 4.0) The first fully synthetic bacteriophage engineering system ...

Bacteriophages—viruses that infect and lyse bacteria—have re-emerged as precision antimicrobials in response to the global rise of drug-resistant infections. Their specificity for bacterial hosts, ...

Tens of millions of still-unknown or misunderstood viruses can cause diseases -- including new pandemics -- and affect the health of valuable terrestrial and marine environments. Now a new pipeline to ...