In a growing global trend, bacteria are evolving new ways to maneuver around medical treatments for a variety of infections.

grow them — and inject them into the mice again. Biswas was working on this unconventional project in the mid-1990s, in the ...

“The field of phage biology has seen an explosion over ... that bind to a bacterial surface corresponds to the genetic material that they inject into the cell. Studying a process that’s ...

Scientists found that plants, fungi, and microbes use venom-like methods to protect themselves, attack rivals, or survive.

Their potential as antibacterial agents was appreciated almost immediately, with the first 'phage therapy' trials predating Fleming's discovery of penicillin by approximately a decade. In this ...

"If we understand the defense mechanisms activated by the bacteria in response to phage infections, we can develop methods to bypass them." For the study, the researchers selected the bacterium ...

This important study analyzes the effect of heat treatment on phage-bacterial interactions and convincingly shows that prior heat exposure alters the bacterial cell envelope, enhancing persistence and ...

To investigate the problem, Penadés and his team began searching for ways one type of superbug — a family of bacteria-infecting viruses known as capsid-forming phage-inducible chromosomal ...

In this way, scientists could retain only positive clones and immediately use their selected phage to generate more phages. This made screening higher throughput, as researchers could screen thousands ...

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From these experiments, Hershey and Chase determined that protein formed a protective coat around the bacteriophage that functioned in both phage attachment to the bacterium and in the injection ...