Phage-focused BiomX is undergoing a “strategic and financial reset” in efforts to improve its position, mapping out a possible shift from therapeutics to the defense sector.   | Phage-focused BiomX is ...

Weizmann Institute researchers have used AI and experimental biology to identify three new families of proteins that viruses ...

Researchers isolated a phage of the Microviridae family from human feces, representing the smallest phage infecting the gut ...

The genomes of phages - viruses that infect bacteria - are largely composed of "dark matter": genes that encode proteins ...

Phages, viruses that thrive by infecting bacteria, have long been mooted as a potential replacement for antibiotics. But where antibiotics pose the problem of the bacteria they target mutating into ...

Reviewed by Michael Greenwood, M.Sc. In phage-display, a gene encoding the surface protein of a bacteriophage is replaced with a gene encoding a novel protein. The technique can be used in drug ...

Phage therapy is the concept of using viruses (known as phage) to kill bacteria, instead of using antibiotics. Until now, experiments have largely focussed on exposing bacteria to phage in a flask.

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 ...

Every living thing on the planet plays host to viruses, and bacteria are no exception. Bacteriophages—or just “phages” to those in the know—are the viruses that attack bacteria. And we are in dire ...