May 2021 – PHAGElogist

New Publication Alert! in ‘Biological Control’ about the application of phages in aquaculture

Nachimuthu Ramesh, Madhav Madurantakam Royam, Prasanth Manohar, Sebastian LeptihnApplication of Bacteriophages and its Endolysin in Aquaculture as a Biocontrol MeasureBiological Control, 2021, 104678, ISSN 1049-9644,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocontrol.2021.104678.(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1049964421001481) Abstract: Aquaculture being a prime…

Glowing molecule could help the fight against antibiotic resistance

A team of researchers has developed a glowing molecule that could help the fight against antibiotic resistance, by alerting doctors to what kind of bacterial threat is affecting their patients.…

Use of antibiotics for Covid-19 patients is worsening India’s drug resistance crisis

Amid dearth of effective treatments, doctors are turning to drugs they have on hand — many are antibiotics that other countries wouldn’t use for Covid. Excessive use of the world’s…

Scientists demonstrate phage therapy technique

A team of French and Swiss scientists has demonstrated a lensless imaging technique that could easily be implemented in cost-effective and compact devices in phage laboratories to accelerate phage-therapy diagnosis. The…

Thinking of new diagnostic tools! Lets talk about bacterial susceptibility to phage

In the growing world of infectious diseases, it is important to diagnose a disease as early as possible to prevent its complications. Talking from infection (bacteria) point-of-view, the use of…

Joined as Review Editor for Frontiers Journals

I will be joining the review editor team in Frontiers, https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/549745/overview Review Editor for Infectious Diseases – Surveillance, Prevention and TreatmentFrontiers in Medicine Open for submissionsFrontiers in Public Health Open for submissions

Pherecydes Pharma expands its patent portfolio with a new patent granted in Hong Kong

Pherecydes Pharma (Paris:ALPHE) (FR0011651694 - ALPHE), a biotechnology company specializing in precision phage therapy to treat resistant and/or complicated bacterial infections, today announced that the Hong Kong authorities have granted a…

Earthworms could help reduce antibiotic resistance genes in soil

Earthworms improve the soil by aerating it, breaking down organic matter and mineralizing nutrients. Now, researchers reporting in ACS' Environmental Science & Technology have dug up another possible role: reducing the number…

Learning from COVID-19 to Tackle Antibiotic Resistance

Learning from COVID-19 to Tackle Antibiotic Resistance. Manica Balasegaram. ACS Infectious Diseases 2021 7 (4), 693-694. DOI: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.1c00079 Drug-resistant “superbug” infections kill an estimated 700 000 people a year,(1) a number set to rise exponentially…

ZJU scientists unravel the mystery of the bacterial flagellar motor

Many bacteria are capable of swimming 60 or even 100 times their own length in a second. This mobility constantly outdistances the cheetah—the fastest animal on the planet. Since Van…