According to the latest reports from WHO, the incidence of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections is increasing worldwide, resulting in increased morbidity and mortality and a rising pressure on ...

From fecal transplants to phage cocktails, scientists reveal how gut viruses could unlock precision medicine for digestive diseases and beyond.

More than a million people a year are already dying from infections caused by microbes that are resistant to treatment – it's ...

Phage - the friendly virus Phage science may sound new and exciting, but it is actually a century old idea stemming from the discoveries of Felix d'Hérelle and Frederick Twort in the 1910s.

Herpes Virus Hijacks Human DNA Within Just an Hour of Infection Billions carry herpes simplex virus 1. New research reveals it hijacks human genes with eerie precision.

The primary criticism of phage therapy is generally that a paucity of modern, double-blinded, Phase III (efficacy) clinical trials in humans have been undertaken and, therefore, a substantial ...

A small proportion of phage-sensitive bacteria can survive during lytic phage infections, exhibiting persistence against phage. Heat treatment systematically reduces envelope-associated proteins in ...

Pseudorabies virus (PRV), also known as Aujeszky’s disease virus, is an enveloped, double-stranded, linear DNA virus that belongs to the family Orthoherpesviridae and the subfamily Alphaherpesvirinae, ...