In addition to decoding life’s building blocks, AI is designing new ones. Scientists have used generative AI to build ...

Scientists engineered phages to act as scaffolds to carry silver nanoparticles. Together, the two bacteria-killing components ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — While working on dual doctoral degrees in pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences at the University at Buffalo, Nicholas Smith, PharmD, PhD, was intrigued by how multiple drugs could be ...

Potential treatments for one of the world's most dangerous hospital superbugs have been found in a surprising location—hospital toilets.

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and other institutions have identified a novel strategy that can eliminate bacteria in a specific location before they cause an infection. The strategy uses a ...

In 2013, Tobi Nagel ended a decade-long search in the country of Georgia. Local scientists she was teaching a workshop with spoke wonders about a ubiquitous, over-the-counter medicine. In pharmacies, ...

A new study published in the journal Nature shows that there are literally hundreds of viruses large enough to consume bacteria, and with properties that are typical of a living organism rather than ...

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 are using synthetic biology to reprogram bacterial viruses -- commonly known as bacteriophages -- to expand their natural host range. This technology paves the way for the therapeutic use ...

One of the many possible solutions to the global antibiotic resistance crisis is an old idea that’s new again—bacteriophages, or phages for short. Phages are viruses that exist solely to kill bacteria ...

For the past two years, Auburn University’s College of Agriculture has conducted research to help peach farmers combat a crop ...

While working on dual doctoral degrees in pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences at UB, Nicholas Smith was intrigued by how multiple drugs could be combined to treat drug-resistant infections. His ...