When people search “The Phage”, something funny happens: the first result is often a Star Trek storyline about a devastating fictional disease…
Imagine being able to design a medicine so precise that it recognizes one single protein in your body and ignores everything else.A…
A few weeks ago, I was chatting with an MSc student who had just isolated her very first phage from a sewage…
Scientists from Indiana University Bloomington have published a study that has revealed a fascinating new mechanism by which bacteria can gain a…
Wound healing is a complex process that involves a lot of work from our cells. Infections from fractures (broken bones) often involve…
Our recent LinkedIn poll series sought to gauge public understanding of a fascinating topic: the diversity of bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria)…
Scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Germany have published their recent…
Bacteriophages, often called phages, are viruses that specifically target and infect bacteria. One of the most fascinating processes they can initiate is…
Stop codon reassignment is a genetic phenomenon where the traditional role of stop codons in terminating protein synthesis is altered, allowing these…
Viruses can classified into two main categories based on whether or not they have a lipid envelope surrounding their capsid. Some viruses…
