Here’s what you will learn when you read this story: For nearly a century, antibiotics have saved untold millions from death, but the rise of antimicrobial resistant organisms (or superbugs) is ...

A pet cat named Squeaks has been saved from a multidrug-resistant infection with a pioneering therapy, a new study details. It marks the first ever use of personalized phage therapy in animals—a type ...

Alone, the phage was able to wipe out 99% of the bacteria, even when dormant. That may sound effective, but the remaining 1% can regroup and cause problems. However, when the phage therapy was paired ...

As the number of antibiotic-resistant infections continues to rise, scientists are looking to bacteriophages (“phages”), viruses that infect bacteria, as an approach to tackling antibiotic resistance.

[Jerusalem, Israel] - A new international study conducted by the Israeli Phage Therapy Center (IPTC) led by Prof. Ran Nir-Paz at Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center and Prof. Ronen Hazan of the ...

The Good Virus: The Untold Story of Phages: The Most Abundant Life Forms on Earth and What They Can Do For Us Tom Ireland Hodder Press (2023) The world is teeming with viruses: they flourish in water, ...

The public are in favor of the development of bacteria-killing viruses as an alternative to antibiotics – and more efforts to educate will make them significantly more likely to use the treatment, a ...

A study offers evidence that a single bacterial species -- the host of the phage -- can maintain a diverse community of competing phage species. Knowing how more than one kind of virus can survive ...