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Bacteriophages are viruses that target and kill specific bacteria, and phage therapy is being investigated as a potential strategy for treating serious bacterial infections. An international team of researchers headed…

Interesting article in Viruses, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6631134/ Some Important points from my view as phage Scientist; The take home lessons from our PT experience are thus: successful PT trials are more likely…

GAITHERSBURG, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Adaptive Phage Therapeutics (APT), a clinical-stage biotechnology company founded to provide an effective therapeutic response to the global rise of multi-drug resistant (MDR) pathogenic bacteria, today announced that Greg…

Improved lyophilization conditions for long-term storage of bacteriophages Prasanth Manohar & Nachimuthu Ramesh  Scientific Reports volume 9, Article number: 15242 (2019) Phage therapy is one of the promising alternatives to combat the increasing problem of antibiotic resistance.…

The human gut microbiome is a dense and taxonomically diverse consortium of microorganisms. While the bacterial components of the microbiome have received considerable attention, comparatively little is known about the…

Phage Therapy Could Beat Drug-Resistant Illnesses Treatment first used in the early 20th century is showing promise against deadly infections .. By Charles Schmidt Bobby Burgholzer has cystic fibrosis, a genetic…

In one of the first looks at the urinary virome, researchers find hundreds of viruses, most of which have never been sequenced before.  Transmission electron micrograph of a novel phage…

The Future of Phages in Research and Health The future of phages in research and healthcare is only just beginning to be realized. Outside of the realm of phage therapy,…

Mediators of InflammationVolume 2019, Article ID 3730519, 14 pageshttps://doi.org/10.1155/2019/3730519 Review Article Bacteriophages: Uncharacterized and Dynamic Regulators of the Immune System Anshul Sinha and Corinne F. Maurice 3.2. Phage-Mediated Alterations in the Intestinal Bacterial Communities:…

In the battle against antibiotic resistance, many scientists have been trying to deploy naturally occurring viruses called bacteriophages that can infect and kill bacteria. Bacteriophages kill bacteria through different mechanisms…