Biochemists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison are using AI to tackle one of modern medicine's most pressing challenges: the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections. Using data collected ...

A new tool to mutate bacteriophages—viruses that infect bacteria—provides a "big leap" forward in our understanding of how ...

Broad-spectrum antibiotics are powerful medicines because they are a single chemical compound capable of disrupting essential microbial processes shared by many types of microbes. In medical and ...

An estimated 38 trillion bacteria live in the human body—and only a small fraction are harmful to our health. However, the ...

Bacteriophages often use hypermodified DNA to protect themselves from host defences. The END nucleases found in bacteria represent a new class of modification-dependent endonucleases recognizing ...

Bacteriophages (phages) — viruses that selectively infect bacteria — are a promising option for personalized therapy of difficult-to-treat bacterial infections. Clinical implementation in many ...

Claude AI agents from Anthropic have assisted in discovering a new enzyme system in the genomes of bacteriophages—viruses ...

An international team just set the rules for using viruses to kill drug-resistant bacteria when antibiotics fail.

An international working group led by the German Society for Infectious Diseases (DGI) has developed a guideline for ...

Scientists have shown that a naturally occurring virus can dismantle complex bacterial communities responsible for severe gum disease, offering a potential alternative to traditional antibiotics. In ...