Antibiotics are indispensable for treating bacterial infections. But why are they sometimes ineffective, even when the ...

UCSF scientists are taking the first steps toward creating a new type of antibiotic that uses an unusual virus to defeat ...

Phages are viruses that attack bacteria by injecting their DNA, then usurping bacterial machinery to reproduce. Eventually, they make so many copies of themselves that the bacteria burst.

As it stands, antibiotics kill bacteria indiscriminately. Because the drugs are used so widely, increasing numbers of dangerous bugs are growing resistant, threatening one of modern medicine's ...

"Under nutrient-scarce conditions, bacteria grow very slowly," says Bumann. "This may seem good at first, but is actually a problem because most antibiotics only gradually kill slowly growing ...