Bacteriophages — or just plain phages — are a class of virus that infect bacteria. Phages are interesting little assemblies of protein-wrapped DNA or RNA that by most biological standards don’t even ...

In the early and mid-1980s, scientists used phages to express recombinant proteins. The protein was retained inside the virions, so screening required growing viral plaques, creating a stamp of these ...

The use of surface plasmon resonance to characterize protein:protein interactions is well established and has been the method of choice for determination of antibody affinity for the last 20 years.

When a person receives a cancer diagnosis, treatment can often include chemotherapy. This method of treating cancer also can affect healthy cells. But what if there was a drug on the market that, ...

Chemists are taking a p[h]age from bacteria's playbook in order to beat viruses at their own game and develop new drugs to fight cancer and a host of other human diseases in the process. Chemists at ...