The viruses that kill bacteria may be our best bet against antibiotic resistance – if we can understand how they win.

Bacteria infected by phage Researchers at the University of Southampton have worked out how bacteria defend themselves ...

Improved understanding of how bacterial defense mechanisms operate may help scientists select phages with the best chance of ...

Adaptive Phage Therapeutics is rolling out PhageBank ATMs at clinical sites to help commercialize phage therapies. Withdrawals may speed the development of treatments against antimicrobial resistance.

By 2050, superbugs are expected to kill more people than cancer. One possible solution is a century-old treatment called phage therapy. A B.C. man is now hoping to become the first to receive ...

One wrinkle is that phage therapy isn't fool-proof — just as bacteria can evolve to outwit antibiotics, they can also evolve resistance against specific phages, according to a 2021 report in the ...

Phage therapy is the concept of using viruses (known as phage) to kill bacteria, instead of using antibiotics. Until now, experiments have largely focussed on exposing bacteria to phage in a flask.

Phage therapy is the concept of using viruses (known as phage) to kill bacteria, instead of using antibiotics. Until now, experiments have largely focussed on exposing bacteria to phage in a flask ...

Bacteriophage (phage) are viruses that specifically infect bacteria. They have a two-phase lifecycle, residing in a dormant state within the host genome (lysogenic cycle) or hijacking the host ...

Phage therapy was tried extensively in the West in the 1920s and 1930s. Despite desperate clinical need, it did not work very well, and was largely abandoned before penicillin became available.