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

More than a million people a year are already dying from infections caused by microbes that are resistant to treatment – it's ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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?

Researchers who work with bacteriophages -- viruses that eat bacteria -- had a pleasant and potentially very important surprise after treating samples to view under an electron microscope: they ...

A group of McMaster researchers who routinely work with bacteriophages – viruses that eat bacteria – had a pleasant and potentially very important surprise while preparing slides to view under ...

Bacteriophages, or phages for short, may be too small to see without an electron microscope, but they have enormous therapeutic potential. Given the bacteria-killing capabilities of phages, the ...

By the way, the viruses that commit such acts are groups that infect bacteria called bacteriophages. The blood-sucking virus was discovered by scientists at the University of Maryland.