But a forgotten treatment, first discovered more than a century ago, could offer hope. Known as bacteriophage therapy—or "phage therapy," for short—it uses viruses that naturally prey on bacteria, ...

My daughter, Mallory, died in 2017 at the age of 25 from a multiply resistant bacterial lung infection that followed a double-lung transplant necessitated by cystic fibrosis. In the weeks before her ...

University of Toronto researchers have discovered nine new genes used by bacteria to protect themselves against phages—viruses that infect them. In a study published in Nature Microbiology, the ...

The 6th World Congress on Targeting Phage Therapy 2023 that was held on June 1-2 in Paris, and gathered more than 150 attendees from 30+ different countries. Targeting Phage Therapy 2023 included more ...

Toronto, Ontario (CTV Network) — The first Canadian study using phages to treat superbug infections is underway with scientists reporting a preliminary but encouraging early success case. “You are ...

Clinicians have used phages to treat bacterial infections since the early 20 th century. Although the advent and mass production of antibiotics caused a decline in phage therapy, the recent rise in ...

Who is Attending Targeting Phage Therapy 2023? Industrial participants: Armata Pharmaceuticals (USA), Cellexus (UK), Aparon (UK), AusHealth (Australia), Biochimpharm ...

Peering through his microscope in 1910, Franco-Canadian microbiologist Félix d'Hérelle noticed some "clear spots" in his bacterial cultures, an anomaly that turned out to be viruses preying on the ...

Lynn Cole was in a never-ending cycle of getting recurrent blood infections. And no antibiotic drugs managed to kill off her zombie-like bacteria. “It just got so frustrating over the years because we ...

Antimicrobial resistance, in which germs like bacteria and fungi no longer respond to medicines, is a rising global threat. When antibiotics and other drugs become ineffective, infections can become ...