The DNA foundation model Evo 2 has been published in the journal Nature. Trained on the DNA of over 100,000 species across ...

Researchers from New England Biolabs and Yale University have created a system for engineering the first fully synthetic bacteriophages that could help with future clinical development of phage ...

World Cancer Day 2026 – united by unique: Cell lines for national and international cancer research – Leibniz Institute DSMZ cell line collection ...

A new DNA-based technique lets scientists build and customize bacteriophages entirely from scratch. The advance could accelerate efforts to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria with precision-designed ...

As bacteria become increasingly (and worryingly) resistant to antibiotics, scientists are recruiting bacteriophages—a bacteria’s sworn evolutionary enemy—to fight against these troublesome “superbugs.

The STAR-IDAZ international research consortium established a working group on Alternatives to Antimicrobials to explore various approaches for reducing our reliance on antimicrobials. These included ...

As antibiotic-resistant infections increasingly threaten public health, interest in bacteriophages as therapeutics has seen a resurgence. However, the field remains largely limited to naturally ...

Before the advent of antibiotics in the 1920s, bacteriophages represented our best bet at fending off life-threatening bacteria. Fast-forward a century, and the looming specter of antimicrobial ...

In response to the global crisis of antimicrobial resistance, phage therapy (PT) is emerging as alternative and complementary therapy to treat bacterial infections. Advances in genomics, synthetic ...

New treatments for ancient microbes are everywhere - in the soil, in the sea, in the human gut, and especially in human sewage, according to Dr Callum Cooper. The rise of antimicrobial resistance as a ...

Antibiotics have long been the go-to treatment for various infections. Still, almost as soon as the treatment was discovered in 1945, widespread use led to the rise of a new problem: antibiotic ...

Using cryo-electron microscopy, researchers have investigated the structure of Bas63, a bacteriophage of the subfamily Ounavirinae and the Felixounavirus genus which targets Escherichia coli, to ...