Tag: bacteriophages

A mini review identifies five SOS-independent routes by which prophages can activate and potentially disseminate antibiotic resistance genes without triggering ...

A 2025 review identifies fish gut microbiome engineering as a possible aquaculture tool, while emphasizing that benefits, safety and farm-scale ...

A 2026 review proposes that bacteriophage-derived delivery, barrier-breaching and immune-stimulation features could help oncolytic viruses penetrate cold tumors and stimulate ...

Applied Microbiology International has announced the winners of its 2026 Horizon Awards, honouring researchers and leaders in climate microbiology, food ...

A multi-omics study of lyophilized fecal microbiota transplantation and bacteria-free sterile fecal filtrate in recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection suggests that ...

Researchers have identified bacterial-viral pneumotypes in the airways of critically ill patients that predict hospital-acquired pneumonia, lung inflammation and mortality.

A new transposon-insertion sequencing method called HIDEN-SEQ systematically maps gene essentiality in bacteriophages and uncovers previously unknown antidefence factors.

Researchers have isolated six infectious Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteriophages, along with a live strain of the bacterium itself, directly from human ...

Researchers have built a phylogeny-agnostic machine-learning framework that predicts strain-level phage–host interactions from genome sequences alone and validated it experimentally ...

Metagenomic sequencing of water from the Ganga River at Haridwar has uncovered thousands of viral species dominated by tailed bacteriophages, ...