A revelatory treatment for patients with life-threatening infectious diseases is being pioneered in Melbourne by researchers at The Alfred and Monash University.

Bacteriophages, or phages for short, may be too small to see without an electron microscope, but they have enormous therapeutic potential. Given the bacteria-killing capabilities of phages, the most ...

In an effort to illustrate that genomic surveillance can build the foundation for scaleable precision phage therapy, an international collaboration analyzed the genomes of over 15,000 cases of ...

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore's Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine), the National University of ...

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 new study has shown an advance in the treatment of antibiotic-resistant infections in animals. The research, focusing on a 5-year-old Siamese cat Squeaks with a multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas ...

The 6th World Congress on Targeting Phage Therapy 2023 will take place on June 1-2 at IRIS, Paris, France. Targeting Phage 2023: Questions, Controversies, and What is Next? Targeting Phage Therapy ...

Bacteriophages (phages) are viruses that kill bacteria. Phage therapy used as an experimental therapy in 51 cystic fibrosis patients with multi-drug resistant infections showed that most had a ...

Steffanie Strathdee and her husband Tom Patterson fishing in Haida Gwaii, British Columbia in August 2023. Tom recovered from a life-threatening superbug infection after receiving phage therapy in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A trial to assess bacteriophage, or “phage,” therapy, which utilizes a virus to target specific bacteria and ...

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 therapy' ...

Every living thing on the planet plays host to viruses, and bacteria are no exception. Bacteriophages—or just “phages” to those in the know—are the viruses that attack bacteria. And we are in dire ...