The coronavirus pandemic has brought many challenges to the college classroom as instructors had to adapt in-person classes for a remote environment. However, these challenges created some interesting ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Antibiotic-resistant infections, which have been on the rise for years, were the cause of more than 1.2 million ...

Soon after joining the faculty at the School of Dental Medicine in March 2020, Kathryn Kauffman, assistant professor of oral biology, created a laboratory to study the power of bacteriophages, also ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and other institutions have identified a novel strategy that can eliminate bacteria in a specific location before they cause an infection. The strategy uses a ...

One of the many possible solutions to the global antibiotic resistance crisis is an old idea that’s new again—bacteriophages, or phages for short. Phages are viruses that exist solely to kill bacteria ...

It was 1917 when Felix d’Herelle, at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, first proposed using bacteriophages select or phages)—viruses that infect bacteria—as a therapy for human bacterial infections.

With the rapid development of antibiotics in the 1930s, phage therapy -- using viruses known as bacteriophages or phages to tackle bacterial infections -- fell into oblivion. But as the current rise ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers created a system for engineering synthetic bacteriophages. They built phage genomes from multiple ...

Phages, or bacteriophages, are viruses that kill certain bacteria. They occur naturally all over the world – in the soil, water, and even in your body. They can fight off bacteria that aren’t able to ...

Bacteriophage. A bacteriophage is constituted of a proteic envelope (called capsid), containing its nucleic acid (DNA or RNA), and a tail. The tail includes a collar (covered with contractile proteins ...

Bacteria-killing viruses built from scratch in a University of Pittsburgh lab could be a breakthrough in the battle against fearsome antibiotic-resistant infections. Pitt biotechnology researcher ...