At IDWeek 2025, held on 19–22 October, Dr Loren Miller from Harbor-UCLA Medical Center/Lundquist Institute presented efficacy and safety data from a Phase Ib/IIa randomised, placebo-controlled trial ...

Antimicrobial resistance is an urgent and growing global crisis. Researchers are exploring phages, viruses that infect bacteria, as a possible solution. In the new study, researchers successfully ...

Collaborating researchers have made a breakthrough discovery regarding the intricate defense systems of bacteriophages (phages)—viruses that can specifically target harmful bacteria without harming ...

Northwestern University researchers have successfully coaxed a deadly pathogen to destroy itself from the inside out. In a new study, researchers modified DNA from a bacteriophage or "phage," a type ...

Pseudomonas bacteria infected by different mutations of a jumbo phage. The dot in the middle is the shield created by the phage to protect its DNA after it has infected the bacterial cell. Image by ...

Like people, bacteria get invaded by viruses. In bacteria, the viral invaders are called bacteriophages, derived from the Greek word for bacteria-eaters, or in shortened form, "phages." Scientists ...

When we think of cholera, most of us picture contaminated water and tragic outbreaks in vulnerable regions. But behind the scenes, cholera bacteria are locked in a fierce, microscopic war-one that ...