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Personalized Inhaled Bacteriophage Therapy Decreases MDR P. aeruginosa

In this fantastic work, Chan and colleagues show that using phage to treat P. aeruginosa lung infections in people with cystic fibrosis can lower P. aeruginosa levels, improve lung function, and drive…

PhageDiag project received grants from the EIC Accelerator Fund

Vésale Bioscience, a research and development company of solutions and treatments using phage therapy for multi-resistant infections, has announced it has received €1.8m (£1.6m) in grants from the European Innovation Council…

First-in-human application of double-stranded RNA bacteriophage

Publication: Brief Report - "First-in-human application of double-stranded RNA bacteriophage in the treatment of pulmonary Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection" by Li et al. https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.14217 Abstract A double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) phage phiYY is able…

Adaptive Phage Therapeutics Announces First Patient Dosed in the PHAGE Clinical Trial

Adaptive Phage Therapeutics, Inc., (APT) a clinical-stage biotechnology company advancing the APT phage bank, the world’s largest therapeutic phage initiative for treatment of bacterial infectious diseases, today announced the first…

Are bacteriophages the new antibiotics?

Bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, may be used as an alternative treatment option when antibiotics fail. Leiden researchers have studied the structure and function of a novel bacteriophage that could…

New Year; New Role; New Beginning…

Excited!!! Starting a new position as a "Postdoctoral Research Associate" (in NIH project) at the Center for Phage Technology (Young lab), Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M AgriLife Research,…

Use of bacteria-killing viruses to treat infection, UK

Bacteriophages, also known as phages, are viruses that infect and can kill bacteria. They hold promise in treating drug-resistant infections, which are on the rise globally and are estimated to…

Synthetic engineering and biological containment of bacteriophages

Abstract The serious threats posed by drug-resistant bacterial infections and recent developments in synthetic biology have fueled a growing interest in genetically engineered phages with therapeutic potential. To date, many…

Antibiotic Awareness Week 2022

Efficacy of phage therapy in preclinical models

Efficacy of phage therapy in preclinical models of bacterial infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis Published: November 09, 2022, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2666-5247(22)00288-9 Summary Background Antimicrobial resistance of bacterial pathogens is an…