In a recent review published in Cell, researchers presented an overview of bacteriophage treatment, including mechanisms, types, design and applications of bacteriophage therapy. Study: Phage therapy: ...

Vibrio cholerae is a facultative pathogen that has an environmental reservoir in aquatic ecosystems and a pathogenic phase in the human small intestine. It produces cholera toxin in the small ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a fatal infectious disease that caused 1.5 million deaths worldwide in 2020. Developing countries are particularly affected and diagnosis, especially in children and adolescents, ...

The lytic and lysogenic cycles are the two main phases of a virus’ infective lifecycle and route to replication. The lytic cycle, or virulent infection, involves a virus taking control of a host cell ...

We found that this bacteriophage has different fibrils—or 'legs'—and receptors on them that recognize bacteria," added Oksana Kotovskaya, a co-author of the work and a Ph.D. student of the Life ...

What is a bacteriophage and how many different types of phage exist? A phage is a virus that infects a bacterium. People often get very confused about what the difference is between a virus and a ...

My daughter, Mallory, died in 2017 at the age of 25 from a multiply resistant bacterial lung infection that followed a double-lung transplant necessitated by cystic fibrosis. In the weeks before her ...

At Purdue University, undergraduates get to get their hands dirty in the lab. Metaphorically, of course – their hands and labs are clean, but their understanding of the in-depth complexities of the ...

During IDWeek 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia, Loren G. Miller, MD, MPH, investigator at The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, presented findings from the Phase IIa ...

Research revealed how bacteriophages use a tiny piece of genetic material to hijack bacterial cells and make more copies of themselves.

Is it “bacteriophage,” as with the plural of “sheep”? Or is it “bacteriophages”? You may not find the answer in a dictionary, which typically doesn’t provide plurals. Researchers and other experts ...