Previously unseen viruses found in home bathrooms may be a new frontier of biotech innovation to fight disease and antibiotic ...

In the decades that followed, d'Hérelle and others used this phage therapy to treat bubonic plague and other bacterial infections until the technique fell into disuse after the widespread ...

In 1919, microbiologist Felix d’Hérelle, a co-discoverer of phages, participated in the administration of what was probably the first phage therapy. 1 It was received by a 12-year-old boy who ...

But doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital attempted an untested "phage therapy", which uses viruses to infect and kill bacteria. Isabelle is now learning to drive and studying for her A-levels.

In the decades that followed, d’Hérelle and others used this phage therapy to treat bubonic plague and cholera, until the technique fell into disuse after the widespread adoption of antibiotics ...

While there are not yet any phage products licensed as human medicines for phage therapy, they are already used as food treatment agents and in agriculture to treat plant diseases. In a few cases ...

In promising experiments, phage therapy forces bacteria into a no-win dilemma that lowers their defenses against drugs they’d evolved to withstand. By Patience Asanga / Knowable Magazine Posted ...

Nonetheless, there are several challenges that must be addressed prior to widespread adoption of phage therapy. In this section, the authors consider various strategies of phage formulation ...

Researchers have a new battle tactic to fight drug-resistant bacterial infections. Their strategy involves using collections ...

A new study describes the use of phage therapy to eradicate multi-drug resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections in a living organism (in vivo) with important new implications for antibiotic ...

Bacteria-eating viruses might be able to fight antibiotic resistance where new treatments are most needed. In January, a burn ...

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 ...