New insights into a "friendly virus" that could pave the way for cutting-edge treatments for the potentially fatal superbug C ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bacteria steal DNA from silent viruses and use it like a memory bank. That memory helps them protect future generations.

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

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A female patient at Singapore General Hospital (SGH) was successfully treated with viruses, one of which was taken from the ...

clinical – of mixing therapeutic phages into cocktails consisting of multiple virus types. We conclude with a discussion of the commercial and medical context of phage cocktails as therapeutic ...

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