BiomX’s acquisition of Adaptive Phage Therapeutics is looking like a good bet now that one of the treatments from the deal ...

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

Viruses of bacteria, known as bacteriophages or phages, were discovered nearly 100 years ago. Their potential as antibacterial agents was appreciated almost immediately, with the first 'phage ...

Phage therapy has recently garnered significant attention as an alternative or adjunctive approach to conventional antibiotic treatments, especially against ...

University of Toronto researchers have discovered nine new genes used by bacteria to protect themselves against phages—viruses that infect them. In a study published in Nature Microbiology, the ...

By understanding bacteriophages, scientists can develop phage therapy to treat bacterial infections that no longer respond to ...

Surgeon Gabriel Weston visited the Eliava Institute in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia to find out more about a decades-old treatment that could prove vital in the battle against drug ...

Collateral damage to normal microbiota, which can be associated with the use of less-specific chemical antibacterials, [4] is avoided. Nonetheless, there are several challenges that must be ...