Such bacteria-infecting viruses, known as phages, are considered a possible alternative to antibiotics that are no longer ...

This is accompanied by those bacteria becoming tolerant to a wide variety of environmental stresses, including antibiotic treatment. Many labs have done experiments that have shown that phages ...

These cylindrical structures extend from the surface of bacteria. Some phages make use of bacterial pili by attaching to them and allowing bacteria to reel the phage to the surface, where the ...

Phages, also known as bacteriophages, are a type of naturally occurring virus that infects bacteria rather than the body's own cells. Looking like sinister aliens, they land on the surface of a ...

With the rapid development of antibiotics in the 1930s, phage therapy – using viruses known as bacteriophages or phages to tackle bacterial infections – fell into oblivion. But as the current ...

Discover the hidden world around you! Join your classmates and other student-scientists from schools all across the U.S. and beyond in a hunt for phages — viruses that infect bacteria. Day1: Phage ...