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 ...

My daughter, Mallory, died in 2017 at the age of 25 from a multiply resistant bacterial lung infection that followed a double-lung transplant necessitated by cystic fibrosis. In the weeks before her ...

When some bacteria manage to escape being killed by a virus, the microbes end up hamstringing themselves. And that could be useful in the fight to treat infections. “We’re kind of expecting phage ...

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 ...

[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, ...

Clinicians have used phages to treat bacterial infections since the early 20 th century. Although the advent and mass production of antibiotics caused a decline in phage therapy, the recent rise in ...