Dennis D'Amico, associate professor of animal science, has demonstrated that bacteriophages can effectively reduce the amount ...

Bhatt’s research focuses on phages — viruses that infect bacteria — which are as abundant in the gut as bacteria, but receive less attention because traditional 16S ribosomal RNA sequencing ...

The Human Virome Program will analyze samples from thousands of volunteers in an effort to understand how viruses affect ...

A researcher at the University at Buffalo is investigating what he sees as the battle’s next frontier: bacteriophages—a type of virus that infects bacteria but not human cells. With many unanswered ...

Last week was the 50th anniversary of the 1975 Asilomar Summit, where scientists came together to establish guidelines for research with genetically modified microbes. Today many more discoveries and ...

Researchers are investigating whether certain viruses known as bacteriophages, or phages, which specifically infect bacteria but not human cells, affect the development of type 1 diabetes in young ...

A world of microbes resides within the gut of every human being. This vast microbial community, the microbiome, which ...