More than a million people a year are already dying from infections caused by microbes that are resistant to treatment – it's ...

An obscure group of phages offers insights into elements of microbial warfare—and blueprints for new antibiotics.

Mass photometry, a single-particle light-scattering technique commercialised and advanced by Refeyn, has been acknowledged by ...

When cholera is mentioned, most people envisage contaminated water supplies and tragic outbreaks in vulnerable regions. Yet ...

When a virus (phage) infects a cholera cell, WonAB tells the cell to self-destruct before the virus can make copies. Yes, the cell dies—but it saves the rest of the bacterial colony.

Participants received placebo or AP-SA02, Armata’s phage therapy, on top of best available antibiotic therapy. At Day 12, the investigator-assessed responder rate was 88% on AP-SA02 versus 58% ...

Herein lies a crucial problem that the world must address. Scientists and policymakers in the United States have spent years discussing and debating how to regulate risky virus research, sometimes ...

As a general rule, most people want to avoid viruses, which are at the root of illnesses like colds, the flu, chickenpox and many a stomach bug. But what about a virus that doesn’t make people ...

PALM SPRINGS, Calif., Nov. 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Forethought Publishing is thrilled to announce the release of Finding Phage, a groundbreaking memoir by Chris Shaffer, chronicling a personal ...

Integrative structural analysis of Pseudomonas phage DEV reveals a genome ejection motor. Nature Communications , 2024; 15 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-52752-1 Cite This Page : ...

Biologists have been investigating phage for use in life-threatening antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections. [Related: Virus observed sucking on another virus’ ‘neck’ for the first time .] ...

So you always have to hunt for the right virus each time. ... Phage therapy may have been too high-tech for the 1940s, and even today, scientists grapple with how to use it.