In a recent study published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers present a method for constructing artificial viral vectors (AVVs) using the established structural components of ...

Venigalla B. Rao, PhD, has been studying bacteriophages for more than four decades, mostly in small laboratories with limited personnel and funding. But having a mere eight-person lab (four post-docs, ...

(Nanowerk News) International researchers have built artificial virus-like particles capable of entering human cells to perform tasks such as gene editing. In a proof of concept study, the team used a ...

A team of scientists from the United States has recently developed a bioengineered bacteriophage T4 nanoparticle structure using CRISPR technology that can be used as a universal platform to produce ...

DNA sequences contain the underlying instructions of life for all living organisms, but even the simplest microbial genomes are largely complex, with millions of DNA base pairs encoding the interplay ...

Researchers have learned how the bacterial virus, bacteriophage T4, attacks its host, the E. coli bacterium. This discovery could eventually lead to a new class of antibiotics. Funded primarily by the ...

Current calibration methods rely on artificially constructed DNA structures or specific cellular features, each with significant drawbacks. DNA-based rulers require complex chemical synthesis and only ...