Like people, bacteria get invaded by viruses. In bacteria, the viral invaders are called bacteriophages, derived from the ...

Now, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have shed new light on how bacteria protect themselves from certain phage ...

A newly discovered bacteriophage with the potential to save lives was named "KpRaz1" in tribute to a fallen soldier, the European Friends of the Hebrew University organization announced earlier ...

A computer virus that rewrites the executable file it targets rather than attaching itself to the file and running along with it. See virus. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other ...

A bacteriophage is a type of virus that infects bacteria. In fact, the word "bacteriophage" literally means "bacteria eater," because bacteriophages destroy their host cells. All bacteriophages ...

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In raw milk, the phages did not reduce counts of Listeria or E. coli. In fact, phage counts decreased. This is because the heat used in pasteurization changes the shape of the proteins that would ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Phage Wars Phage Wars is a game that simulates viruses competing over host cells. Each virus starts contained to a single cell. The player virus can ...

UNC Greensboro is welcoming a Nobel Prize winner to its campus on Wednesday, March 19. George Smith, Ph.D., won the prize for ...

Sigal Vorzhev discovered the phage at the Israeli Phage Therapy Center (IPTC) of the Hebrew University and Hadassah-University Medical Center under the guidance of Prof. Ronen Hazan and doctoral ...