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

Bacteria use antiphage systems to combat phages, their ubiquitous competitors, and evolve new defenses through repeated reshuffling of basic functional units into novel reformulations. A common theme ...

Bacteria get invaded by viruses called phages. Scientists are studying how bacteria use CRISPR to defend themselves from phages, which will inform new phage-based treatments for bacterial infections ...

It acts as a sort of molecular fumigator to battle phages and plasmids. CRISPR-Cas9 has long been likened to a kind of genetic scissors, thanks to its ability to snip out any desired section of DNA ...

The goal of gene therapy is to permanently cure hereditary diseases. One of the most promising technologies for this is the ...

Some viruses, known as bacteriophages, only infect bacterial cells, often destroying those bacteria in the process.

**ECCMID has now changed its name to ESCMID Global, please credit ESCMID Global Congress (formerly ECCMID, Barcelona, Spain, 27-30 April) in all future stories** Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is ...

Viktor Mamontov, Alexander Martynov, Natalia Morozova, Anton Bukatin, Dmitry B. Staroverov, Konstantin A. Lukyanov, Yaroslav Ispolatov, Ekaterina Semenova, Konstantin Severinov Proceedings of the ...

Viruses armed with the gene-editing tool CRISPR could someday be used to treat urinary tract infections (UTIs), results from an early clinical trial suggest. However, the experimental treatment, which ...

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