Phages are viruses that attack bacteria by injecting their DNA, then usurping bacterial machinery to reproduce. Eventually, ...

By treating DNA as a language, Brian Hie’s “ChatGPT for genomes” could pick up patterns that humans can’t see, accelerating ...

Most major biological molecules, including all proteins, DNA and RNA, point in one direction or another. In other words, they are chiral, or handed. Like how your left glove fits only your left hand ...

Evidence has emerged about the way bacteria become resistant to multiple drugs. The findings by a John Innes Centre research ...

Imagine one of Denmark's many picturesque beaches, the waves lapping against the shore, the golden sand and the smooth ...

Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is ...

A new, permanent and free exhibition at the Natural History Museum is designed to warn people about their impact on our ...

Jumbo phages use a protein shield to protect their DNA from bacterial attacks. A special handshake controls which molecules enter.

Real-time imaging shows that bacterial resilience to antibiotics is not caused by a few ‘persisters’, but is a ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Genetics of a Bacterial Virus ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 212 No. 2 (February 1965), p. 70 doi:10.1038 ...