Scientists are now looking to bacteriophage — viruses that infect bacteria — and their potential to treat drug-resistant ...

Bacteriophages are viruses that selectively target and kill bacteria. They are abundant, commonly occurring natural entities ...

explore the genetics, potential origins and life cycle of phage satellites, and they discuss the impact of these elements on the evolution of other mobile genetic elements and their host bacteria.

Depending on the life cycle of the phage, this lysis can occur either soon after the initiation of infection (lytic cycle) or instead following lengthy periods of delay (lysogenic cycle).

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 ...

"Using our new analytical tool, we profiled the combined phage-bacteria communities in 12,262 stool samples from 887 ...