A new treatment for patients with life-threatening infectious diseases is being pioneered in Melbourne by researchers at The ...

Phage therapy is emerging as a potential solution to antibiotic resistance and superbugs, with clinical advances in ...

Phages are ubiquitous particles that infect bacteria and archaea in all environments. In addition to lysing bacteria, phages ...

In the early and mid-1980s, scientists used phages to express recombinant proteins. The protein was retained inside the virions, so screening required growing viral plaques, creating a stamp of these ...

When a person receives a cancer diagnosis, treatment can often include chemotherapy. This method of treating cancer also can affect healthy cells. But what if there was a drug on the market that, ...

Scientists insert variable DNA sequences coding for their proteins of interest into plasmids that carry a phage coat protein gene, an antibiotic resistance gene, and a packaging signal. Then they ...

Biliary tract infection (BTI) is a disease with high morbidity and mortality, often associated with structural abnormalities such as common bile duct stones and malignant tumors. Although Pseudomonas ...

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 ...