"Conducting research through the SEA-PHAGES program was the first time in my academic career where I felt what I learned in ...

A new scoping review (DOI: 10.1002/pdi3.97), led by the Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University and published in Pediatric Discovery on July 16, 2024, takes a deeper look at how ...

Revealing its strategies could boost the fight against antibiotic resistance. Phages are viruses that attack bacteria by injecting their DNA, then usurping bacterial machinery to reproduce.

That’s what bacteriophages — or, simply, phages — are, and a new skincare brand is harnessing their power to clear up acne without the need for a complicated routine. The primary cause of ...

Higher levels of long COVID were found in lower-income households. More than 1 million children may have been affected by long COVID as of 2023, new federal data published Monday suggests.

We were seated in her rumpus room, me on the couch and her on the floor, as one of her four children (she now has five) toddled back and forth. The topic turned to motherhood. “I’m not sure I ...

After a six-year long legal battle, a court in the Brazilian state of Espírito Santo has authorized a child to be officially registered as the child of three fathers and one mother. Ana Paula ...

Eleanor Menzin is a pediatrician at Longwood Pediatrics and Children’s Hospital of Boston, and part-time assistant professor at Harvard Medical School I was just starting out in pediatrics in ...

Whilst the ultimate outcome of the lytic cycle is production of new phage progeny and death of the host bacterial cell, this is a multistep process involving precise coordination of gene transcription ...