Phage therapy is not a recent discovery; it dates back to the early 20th century, with two scientists making impactful discoveries within two years of each other. But research priorities shifted towar...

Since bacteriophages were first identified in the early 1900s, scientists have described an ongoing ‘arms race’ between bacteria and phages. They don’t have nuclear weapons like humans, so what is the...

Phage-plasmids are unique mobile genetic elements that function as plasmids and temperate phages. While it has been observed that such elements often encode antibiotic resistance genes and defense sys...

Abstract. Bacteria host various foreign genetic elements, most notably plasmids and bacteriophages (or phages). Historically, these two classes were seen as separate, but recent research has shown con...