With the rapid development of antibiotics in the 1930s, phage therapy -- using viruses known as bacteriophages or phages to tackle bacterial infections -- fell into oblivion. But as the current rise ...

Researchers have enabled the effective selection of phages based on the genome of the bacteria they want to target, helping ...

In soil or water, where phages are naturally present, they circulate until they find the right target. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, Inserm, the Paris Public Hospital Network (AP-HP ...

The tail includes a collar (covered with contractile proteins for the most elaborated bacteriophages, such as the T2 and T4 phages) and ending by tail fibers enabling it to attach to the bacteries ...

With the rapid development of antibiotics in the 1930s, phage therapy – using viruses known as bacteriophages or phages to tackle bacterial infections – fell into oblivion. But as the current ...