Researchers have developed a product that uses bacterial viruses, known as ‘bacteriophages’, to combat ...

Viruses called phages hold enormous promise as a way to fight infection, but don’t expect to see them in the clinic soon. This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review's weekly ...

Researchers at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) and UChicago Medicine, including Asst. Prof. Mark Mimee (left) and research specialist Ella Rotman, have shown ...

The quest for new antibiotics is going back to the Stone Age. The urgency to identify possible candidates has never been greater as the global population faces nearly 5 million deaths every year that ...

A CU Boulder-led study of sunflowers shows that their genes relate to the abundance of bacteria associated with resistance against one of the pathogens that causes white mold Sunflowers aren’t just ...

Transmission electron micrograph demonstrating how the functional amyloid curli (purple) acts as a molecular suit of armor to defend E. coli (green) against the predatory bacterium Bdellovibrio ...