But Chan explained that they can't infect humans because phages only target specific bacteria strains. Safety studies, so far, haven't shown any major problems. Phage research in Canada ...

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

“I dream of one day taking phage therapy to lower- and middle-income countries that bear the biggest burden of superbug infections and don’t have access to the resources that I did.” Phage therapy is ...

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

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 ...

It wasn’t until the USSR collapsed in 1991 that phage treatments came to the attention of countries with big research budgets, via atmospheric news accounts of funding-starved researchers jury ...

Treatment of bacterial infections with bacteriophages (phages)—viruses that enter bacterial cells and rapidly multiply, quickly rupturing the cells and destroying the bacteria—has been known to be ...

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has published the U.K.’s first official guidance to support the safe development and use of phage therapies. The guidance aims to ...