Unlike classic phage therapy, which uses one or more types of phages to infect and lyse specific bacterial strains, the crux of this new approach is using these specialized viruses to supply ...

Bacteria can fend off viral infections by chopping up their DNA with their CRISPR-based immune system, but sufficient numbers of phages can overwhelm microbes’ defenses. In two papers published in ...

These bacteria can be vulnerable to infection from viruses called bacteriophages. One of bacterial cells' most well-known defenses against these viruses is the CRISPR system, which evolved in ...