Is there an effective alternative to antibiotics? Researchers around the world are focusing on bacteriophages. These "good" ...

A mammalian cell's guide on how to process a bacteriophage. Annual Review of Virology Vol. 10, September 2023, p.183. doi: 10.1146/annurev-virology-111821-111322.

"No one has ever seen a bacteriophage — or any other virus — attach to another virus," lead study author Tagide deCarvalho, an assistant director of the College of Natural and Mathematical ...

Here’s how it works. Bacteriophages, as pictured above, normally infect bacteria, but they also interact with mammalian cells. (Image credit: Westend61 via Getty Images) ...

Most of the viruses, which aren’t harmful to humans, came from the toothbrushes, and many hadn’t been described before. “That’s wild, it just underscores how much novel stuff is out there ...

Megan Baldridge and her co-workers will use their Global Grant for Gut Health (GGGH) to examine which human proteins interact with bacteriophage viruses in the gut, and how this might trigger ...

Discovered by students in ISU’s Bacteriophage Discovery and Genomics class, bacteriophages like KillerTomato are viruses that wield their genetic information like a weapon to infect bacteria.