A bacteriophage is a type of virus that infects ... Bacteriophages occasionally remove a portion of their host cells' bacterial DNA during the infection process and then transfer this DNA into ...

Researchers at Pitt have produced the most detailed image to date of a bacteriophage–phage for short–that has allowed them to ...

In the 1960s, Werner Arber observed a dramatic change in the bacteriophage DNA after it invaded these resistant strains of bacteria: It was degraded and cut into pieces. In an attempt to explain ...

Scientists are now looking to bacteriophage — viruses that infect bacteria ... Because most phages simply inject their DNA directly into the host, effectively announcing their arrival within the cell, ...

In addition, bacteria encode a collection of several hundred more rare and obscure defense systems, some of which—such as BREX (BacteRiophage EXclusion)—exploit modification of their own DNA ...

John McCafferty, Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease Additionally, because the protein would be bound to the bacteriophage with the inserted DNA, the product and ...

To create their viral traps, the team started with a single-stranded DNA molecule that was either synthesized or derived from a bacteriophage virus. They mixed this DNA with shorter, synthetic DNA ...

This important study analyzes the effect of heat treatment on phage-bacterial interactions and convincingly shows that prior heat exposure alters the bacterial cell envelope, enhancing persistence and ...

We hear from Paul Hebert, the biologist behind the International Barcode of Life project – a global effort to classify the entire world’s species according to their DNA. Bristol researchers ...