Using cryo-electron microscopy, researchers have investigated the structure of Bas63, a bacteriophage of the subfamily ...

D imaging reveals ancient phages virus with features dating back billions of years - and potential to fight today’s dangerous ...

Scientists mapped the Bas63 bacteriophage in unprecedented detail, uncovering how its tail machinery infects bacteria. The ...

Researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology and the University of Otago have resolved the full ...

An electron micrograph— a photograph taken by means of a transmission electron microscope—of the DT57C bacteriophage. These types of images have been used to obtain a three-dimensional structure of ...

Some viruses only infect bacteria; they care called bacteriophages or phages for short. As antibiotic-resistant bacteria become a greater threat to public health, scientists and clinicians have been ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 112, No. 4 (January 27, 2015), pp. 971-976 (6 pages) Filamentous phage are elongated semiflexible ssDNA viruses ...

Otago researchers mapped a bacteriophage in molecular detail, revealing structural features that may advance phage therapy ...

Cryo-electron microscopy by University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers has exposed the structure of a bacterial virus with unprecedented detail. This is the first structure of a virus able to ...

The study may provide clues to how similar viruses infect cells and suggest ways for developing a new class of antibiotics and other drugs to prevent illnesses caused by viral pathogens. Scientists at ...

Scientists at Purdue University and the University of Minnesota have solved the three-dimensional structure of the central component of a biological "motor" that powers the DNA packaging system in a ...