Meet the jumbo phage. Scientists believe they’ve cracked the code on how its ‘secret handshakes’ act as a shield against the ...

Fingernails and toenails are most often infected when bacteria enters an injury on the cuticle, nail bed, or finger. Nail infections can be serious, and in some cases require medical attention.

Thanks to their bacteria-heavy "diet," these viruses could be the key to creating antibiotics that knock out deadly infections with a single punch. But first, scientists will need to teach the ...

Phages are viruses that attack bacteria by injecting their DNA, then usurping bacterial machinery to reproduce. Eventually, they make so many copies of themselves that the bacteria burst.

Five GP clinics in Geelong are using a finger prick or throat swab to test whether a patient's infection is bacterial or whether it's caused by a different type of microbe. Both tests produce a ...