Bacteriophages are viruses that selectively target and kill bacteria. They are abundant, commonly occurring natural entities ...

Whilst the ultimate outcome of the lytic cycle is production of new phage progeny and death of the host bacterial cell, this is a multistep process involving precise coordination of gene transcription ...

In this review, we consider phage therapy that can be used for treating ... which is then followed by intracellular replication. Over 90% of phages have tailed icosahedral heads that, after ...

Interestingly, they did not conclude that DNA was the hereditary material, pointing out that further experiments were required to establish the role that DNA played in phage replication.

There is more to learn about bacterial anti-phage defense systems, but this team has already shown that blocking virus ...

Depending on what kind of virus it is, a virion will hijack a specific type of host cell and then steal that cell's energy to feed its own replication ... all of a jumbo phage's memorized ...