D imaging reveals ancient phages virus with features dating back billions of years - and potential to fight today’s dangerous ...

Scientists mapped the Bas63 bacteriophage in unprecedented detail, uncovering how its tail machinery infects bacteria. The ...

Using cryo-electron microscopy, researchers have investigated the structure of Bas63, a bacteriophage of the subfamily ...

Otago researchers mapped a bacteriophage in molecular detail, revealing structural features that may advance phage therapy ...

An Aston University researcher has created the first-ever computer reconstruction of a virus, including its complete native genome. Although other researchers have created similar reconstructions, ...

Since bacteria, such as those that cause gonorrhea or gastrointestinal infections, are becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics, scientists are searching for outside-the-box ideas to tackle the ...

The study may provide clues to how similar viruses infect cells and suggest ways for developing a new class of antibiotics and other drugs to prevent illnesses caused by viral pathogens. Scientists at ...

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 ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 112, No. 4 (January 27, 2015), pp. 971-976 (6 pages) Filamentous phage are elongated semiflexible ssDNA viruses ...