On the earth, trillions of creatures are killed every day in places we do not know. Living creatures that are killed in large quantities are bacteria. And the culprit that is killing that bacterium is ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A trial to assess bacteriophage, or “phage,” therapy, which utilizes a virus to target specific bacteria and ...

A phage is a virus specific to bacteria in that the mechanism of phage self-replication relies on hijacking the cellular machinery of a bacterium and are thus unable to survive in other hosts. Phage ...

What is a bacteriophage and how many different types of phage exist? A phage is a virus that infects a bacterium. People often get very confused about what the difference is between a virus and a ...

The pandemic of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has caused the death of at least 270,000 people as of the 8th of May 2020. This work stresses the potential role of bacteriophages to decrease the ...

The increasing global attention to the threat of antibiotic resistance has spurred research and development of antimicrobial alternatives. Once such alternative is bacteriophages. Bacteriophages are ...

Dr. George Tetz has led a research team that has recently presented important data that could change the conventional medical understanding of causes for many diseases, like Alzheimer’s disease, ...

With an increasing number of antibiotic-resistant bacteria popping up around the world, we still refuse to believe our indiscriminate use of antibiotics — either in livestock production or as a remedy ...

Is it “bacteriophage,” as with the plural of “sheep”? Or is it “bacteriophages”? You may not find the answer in a dictionary, which typically doesn’t provide plurals. Researchers and other experts ...