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She repeats this process every two weeks. So even before her analysis, she knows the bucket is chock-full of naturally occurring predatory viruses called bacteriophages — phages for short.

And, even then, it yields only a population-average readout. In the new method, a fluorescent dye is used to label different viruses, and a camera records video of their interactions with bacteria ...

Over millions of years, viruses and bacteria have engaged in a back-and-forth arms race. Viruses develop new ways to infect bacteria, while bacteria counter by evolving a resistance mechanism.

Fluorescence microscopy image of E. coli cells infected with bacteriophage Goslar, with both the phage nuclei and EPI vesicles fluorescently labeled. The viral DNA is inside the phage nuclei (cyan), ...

A team of researchers from German and Polish institutions has found an unexpected solution: T4 bacteriophages, viruses that naturally infect E. coli bacteria. Their research, published in Advanced ...

Review The curious history of life-saving viruses Bacteria-eating viruses called bacteriophages are drawing new interest, Lina Zeldovich writes in her new book By Amber Dance ...

Credit: Shutterstock It sounds like something from an advertisement for bathroom cleaner: Researchers found over 600 different viruses, most of which are new to science, in samples taken from ...

A colorized electron microscope photo of a group of phages that spontaneously formed into a flower-like shape. Credit: McMaster University McMaster researchers found that bacteriophages treated under ...

I can’t believe this. No one has ever seen a bacteriophage—or any other virus—attach to another virus. So what does this mean for us?