A team led by University of Pittsburgh's Graham Hatfull has developed a method to construct bacteriophages with entirely synthetic genetic material, allowing researchers to add and subtract genes at ...

Bacteriophage. A bacteriophage is constituted of a proteic envelope (called capsid), containing its nucleic acid (DNA or RNA), and a tail. The tail includes a collar (covered with contractile proteins ...

Bacterial infections pose significant challenges to agriculture and medicine, especially as cases of antibiotic-resistant bacteria continue to rise. In response, scientists at Texas A&M AgriLife ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Soon after joining the faculty at the University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine in March 2020, Kathryn Kauffman, assistant professor of oral biology, created a laboratory to ...

Phages—tiny entities that infect bacteria—were discovered over 100 years ago but were largely abandoned as therapies. Now they’re making a comeback. This article is from The Checkup, MIT Technology ...

Cynthia Horton’s earaches are the stuff of nightmares. “I can wake up from my sleep in horrible pain, like I’m having a root canal with no anesthesia,” she said. “When I sit up, my ear is often ...

Viruses called phages hold enormous promise as a way to fight infection, but don’t expect to see them in the clinic soon. This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review's weekly ...

Ella Balasa was 26 when she realized the routine medical treatments that sustained her were no longer working. The slender lab assistant had lived since childhood with the side effects of cystic ...

A U.S. Navy microbiologist found 14 new bacteria-eating viruses that could help fight drug-resistant infections and gave them ...

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 ...