So we grew biofilms, and from those we purified the phage molecules. Then we added physiologically relevant biopolymers that would mimic the biofilm environment and we saw the phages forming ...

Known as phage therapy, it uses viruses to kill harmful bacteria in difficult-to-treat infections. Read more at ...

biofilm-phage interactions, host heterogeneity in disease transmission and superspreading events. Announcement: I am looking for undergraduate or graduate students who want to pursue research in this ...

An international research team led by the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has achieved a breakthrough in the field of ...

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 ...

BX211 was safe and well-toleratedBX211 produced sustained and statistically significant1 Percent Area Reduction (PAR) of ulcer size (p = 0.046 at ...

Future Microbiol. 2013;8(6):769-783. The use of phage cocktails can be conceptually differentiated into: efforts that seek to broaden the utility of phage formulations, that is, what diseases or ...