Phage therapy has been around for more than 100 years, but with the advent of antibiotics and a possible influence of an unfavorable review published in the Journal of the American Medical ...

After this early success, d’Hérelle continued to explore phage therapy’s potential. For example, he participated in a clinical trial against cholera and reported favorable results.

While there is still a long road ahead, phage therapy is one of the few tested solutions for drug-resistant infections—and could some day be comparable, if not cheaper, to the cost of antibiotics.

Phage Therapy Applications. Phage therapy is a promising candidate for combating the antibiotic resistance crisis because of its capacity to target and infect specific bacteria. Another advantage of ...

Berlin, Germany – As antibiotic resistance accelerates into a global crisis, phage therapy is emerging as one of the most promising—and urgent—solutions in modern medicine. From June 10 ...

The 6th World Congress on Targeting Phage Therapy 2023 that was held on June 1-2 in Paris, and gathered more than 150 attendees from 30+ different countries. Targeting Phage Therapy 2023 included ...

Phage science may sound new and exciting, but it is actually a century old idea stemming from the discoveries of Felix d'Hérelle and Frederick Twort in the 1910s. Bacteriophage therapy was a ...

As antibiotic resistance reaches critical levels worldwide, the 8th World Congress on Targeting Phage Therapy (June 10–11, 2025) returns to Berlin, bringing together over 75 international ...

THE GOOD VIRUS: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage, by Tom Ireland. THE MASTER BUILDER: How the New Science of the Cell Is Rewriting the Story of Life, by Alfonso Martinez Arias.