Antibiotic resistance in bacterial pathogens presents a substantial threat to the control of
infectious diseases. Development of new classes of antibiotics has slowed in recent years …

Soon after their discovery in the early 20th century, bacteriophages were recognized to have
great potential as antimicrobial agents, a potential that has yet to be fully realized. The …

The current problems with increasing bacterial resistance to antibacterial therapies, resulting
in a growing frequency of incurable bacterial infections, necessitates the acceleration of …

The success of phage therapy is dependent on the development of strategies able to
overcome the limitations of bacteriophages as therapeutic agents, the creation of an …

Bacteriophages are the most abundant biological entity in the world and hold a tremendous
amount of unexplored genetic information. Since their discovery, phages have drawn a great …

Since their independent discovery by Frederick Twort in 1915 and Felix d'Herelle in 1917,
bacteriophages have captured the attention of scientists for more than a century. They are …

Viruses of bacteria (bacteriophages or phages) are highly evolved nanomachines that
recognize bacterial cell walls, deliver genetic information, and kill or transform their targets …

Bacteriophage research has been instrumental to advancing many fields of biology, such as
genetics, molecular biology, and synthetic biology. Many phage-derived technologies have …

The rapid rise of antibiotic resistance, combined with the increasing cost and difficulties to
develop new antibiotics, calls for treatment strategies that enable more sustainable antibiotic …

Bacteriophages are now widely recognized as major players in a wide variety of
ecosystems. Novel genes are often identified in newly isolated phages as well as in …