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Recent article in the JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY Bacteriophage steering of Burkholderia cenocepacia toward reduced virulence and increased antibiotic sensitivity ABSTRACT Antibiotic resistance in bacteria is a growing global concern and has spurred…

IN BMC Infectious Diseases: The World Health Organization (WHO) has indicated that the global new antibiotic discovery pipeline is inadequate to address the mounting threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) [1]…

The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines…

Recent Advances in Structural Studies of Single-Stranded RNA Bacteriophages Abstract Positive-sense single-stranded RNA (ssRNA) bacteriophages (phages) were first isolated six decades ago. Since then, extensive research has been conducted on…

Phage-microbe dynamics after sterile faecal filtrate transplantation in individuals with metabolic syndrome: a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled clinical trial assessing efficacy and safety Abstract Bacteriophages (phages) are bacterial viruses that have…

No one likes to be reminded that their largest organ is a veritable menagerie of microbes. But Parallel Health turns the skin microbiome from creepy fact to potentially transformative skin care by engineering…

Bacteriophage therapy: are we running before we have learned to walk? European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (2023) Yet despite the paucity of research, the fervor for new antimicrobials…

Recent interesting article published in PNAS questioned our previous understanding about the dsRNA virus, Picobirnaviridae. As a member of a lysis team (Ry Young group) it's interesting to evaluate these…

I have a clear memory of sitting on a Toronto-area park bench in 1985 as my dad—a computer executive and jack-of-all-trades—explained the arms race between our cells and a new…

Forbes: The Critical Fix We Need To Rebuild Our Broken Antibiotic Pipeline Recently, a Ukrainian soldier in his 50s suffered terrible burns in a vehicle fire. After he was transported…