Known as phage therapy, it uses viruses to kill harmful bacteria in difficult-to-treat infections. Read more at ...
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University of Toronto researchers have discovered nine new genes used by bacteria to protect themselves against ...
Phage therapy has recently garnered significant attention as an alternative or adjunctive approach to conventional antibiotic treatments, especially against ...
Nonetheless, there are several challenges that must be addressed prior to widespread adoption of phage therapy. In this section, the authors consider various strategies of phage formulation ...
A newly developed laboratory tool can, within hours, help to identify specific viruses which can be used to destroy variants ...
Fairburn explains that in the absence of an active anti-phage defence, viral infections inhibit bacterial growth and cause a ...