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 ...

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

In addition to decoding life’s building blocks, AI is designing new ones. Scientists have used generative AI to build ...

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

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 ...

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

Results from a new study are providing new insights into the therapeutic potential of bacteriophage (phage) therapy for treating diseases like cystic fibrosis (CF). Results from a new Dartmouth-led ...

In Canada, the number of human isolates of verotoxigenic (VT+ve) Escherichia coli 0157:H7 from diarrhoeal cases and haemolytic uraemic syndrome and haemorrhagic colitis has increased from 25 in 1982 ...

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 ...

An experimental cocktail of viruses has saved the life of a teenager who had a deadly and seemingly untreatable infection. Isabelle's body was being attacked by bacteria and she was given less than a ...