Potential treatments for one of the world's most dangerous hospital superbugs have been found in a surprising location—hospital toilets.

Antibiotics are no longer able to treat infections as effectively as they once did because many pathogens have developed ...

In a compelling new video interview from Applied Microbiology International’s ‘Under the Lens’ series, Dr. Callum Cooper, a ...

Following internal analysis and Data Monitoring Committee (DMC) feedback, the Company has elected to discontinue the BX004 Cystic Fibrosis (CF) ...

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego are developing alternatives for antibiotics, such as bacteriophages.

Staphylococcus aureus pathogenicity islands (SaPIs) are highly mobile phage-related mobile genetic elements in staphylococci. Elements similar to SaPIs have been detected in related Gram-positive ...

Phage therapy has hit newsstands once again! People who have cystic fibrosis and other chronic lung conditions suffer from frequent lung infections, often caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Now, ...

Scientists engineered phages to act as scaffolds to carry silver nanoparticles. Together, the two bacteria-killing components ...

Kompetensportalen, Lucat, Lupin, Lubas and LUCRIS. Those are the names of some of Lund University's administrative systems.

Collaborating researchers have made a breakthrough discovery regarding the intricate defense systems of bacteriophages (phages)—viruses that can specifically target harmful bacteria without harming ...

Although whole phage continue to generate interest as an alternative to antibiotics, focus is shifting to the use of purified phage components as antibacterial agents. When phages were first ...