Phages are viruses that infect bacteria and can also be used to treat human infections. However, as with antibiotics, bacteria can readily evolve resistance to phage attack, highlighting a key ...

Attachment of a bacterial protein to the tips of phage tails produces non-infectious, tailless phages. “Many of these bacterial systems have been shown to be the evolutionary origin of different human ...

Soon after bacteria-killing viruses were independently discovered by English physician Frederick Twort in 1915 and by French microbiologist Felix d’Herelle in 1917, the tiny microbes were seen to have ...