More than a million people a year are already dying from infections caused by microbes that are resistant to treatment – it's known as the "silent pandemic". By 2050, that figure is projected to reach ...

The first antibiotics made once-deadly infections curable, and their early developers were lauded with a Nobel. But these miracle drugs soon revealed their Achilles heel: When antibiotics are overused ...

BiomX has published promising phase 1b/2a trial results in Nature Communications, demonstrating that its phage cocktail BX004 ...

Phage therapy uses viruses to target bacteria that can help combat antimicrobial resistance. This approach combined with AI could transform infection treatment and environmental health in India.

Research using phage cocktails started to increase at the start of the millennium owing to a number of insufficient-to-modest outcomes obtained while evaluating single phage preparations. [] This ...

CANADIAN DISCOVERY Phage therapy may not be available in Canada but it did start here over 100 years ago. French Canadian scientist Felix d’Herelle co-discovered these micro killers in 1917.

GAITHERSBURG, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Adaptive Phage Therapeutics (APT), a clinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering the development of phage-based therapies to combat bacterial infections ...

Sinsheimer reviewed phage candidates, settled on φX174, acquired samples from labs in England and France, and set to work. There began a string of firsts for science based on φX174.

The phage did have some champions in the West. The biologist Betty Kutter, whom Ireland calls“the first lady of phage,” lives in Olympia, Wash., in a house built to resemble an icosahedral ...

The Phage Whisperer. Biswajit Biswas drew a syringe full of phage and injected it into his laboratory mice, one after another. The mice weren't sick, so he wasn't using phages as medicine. He just ...