He and a colleague proved a theory advanced by the Nobel Prize winners James Watson and Francis Crick, who discovered DNA’s ...

CTXφ is a filamentous phage whose single-stranded DNA genome includes ctxAB, the genes that encode cholera toxin (CT) (1), the primary virulence factor produced by the choleragenic bacterium Vibrio ...

As antibiotic-resistant "superbugs" make infections trickier to treat, some in the medical community are turning to ...

The promise of genome editing to help understand human diseases and create new therapies is vast, but technological limitations have limited advancement of the field. While existing editing ...

The wounds were located in the areas of tumors. Bacteriophages (T4) were modified with anticancer Tyr–Ile–Gly–Ser–Arg (YIGSR) peptides by phage display and injected intraperitoneally.

In addition to these host functions, IHF is required for the development of several viruses, including bacteriophage lambda. Indeed, IHF was originally described as a host protein that is required for ...