Hidden on toothbrushes and showerheads, bacteriophages reveal a viral ecosystem and its potential to create healthier living ...

Retrons are bacterial genetic elements that, in combination with toxic effector proteins, can serve as antiphage defense systems. Here, the authors show that some phages can evade retrons and ...

Armata Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE American: ARMP) ("Armata" or the "Company"), a biotechnology company focused on high-purity ...

Elders named the bacteriophage in Woi Wurrung language Merri-merri-uth nyilam marra-natj (MMNM), which translates as "Dangerous Merri lurker" in English. Importantly, the researchers found that a ...

After treating samples of bacteriophages, informally known as phages ... With a little prompting, nature had produced the very type of structure that experts in the field had been attempting to ...

Viruses that infect bacteria—known as bacteriophages - could be used in a targeted manner to combat bacterial diseases. They also play an important ecological role in the global biogeochemical ...

By sequencing the DNA from the swabbed samples, the researchers discovered more than 600 viruses known to infect bacteria, called bacteriophages. Most of the viruses, which aren’t harmful to ...

However, in the presence of another type of mobile genetic element – the bacteriophages – the repressor proteins start to interact with specific proteins encoded by the bacteriophages. This allows the ...