Their potential as antibacterial agents was appreciated almost immediately, with the first 'phage therapy' trials predating Fleming's discovery of penicillin by approximately a decade. In this ...

As antibiotic-resistant bacteria pose growing health risk, Hebrew University scientists search for 'good' viruses and name them after heroes killed on or after Oct. 7 The post Researcher names potent ...

The US government has provided almost $24 million in funding to Locus Biosciences to support a mid-stage trial of LBP-EC01, a CRISPR-engineered bacteriophage therapy in development for resistant ...

Phages are viruses that precisely target and kill bacteria, which can offer “a potential solution to the growing crisis of ...

The lead developers at Flinders University claim the new platform, called Sphae, is capable of assessing if a phage is suitable for a targeted therapy in under 10 minutes. This marks a big step ...

The strategic collaboration with Technophage is a major step forward on this pathway, which should enable us to introduce individualized phage therapy in key European hospitals and generate first ...

Scientists insert variable DNA sequences coding for their proteins of interest into plasmids that carry a phage coat protein gene, an antibiotic resistance gene, and a packaging signal. Then they ...