With the rise of antibiotics in the 1930s, phage therapy (the use of viruses called bacteriophages to fight bacterial infections) was abandoned. Today, the increase in antibiotic resistance makes ...

Some viruses only infect bacterial cells; they are known as bacteriophages, and they have real potential to defeat antibiotic ...

Each form of bacteriophage is specialized to destroy one form of bacteria. In the test, phages — as they are called informally — find and attack the target bacteria in a sample, causing the bacteria ...

M icrobiologists have studied bacterial defense mechanisms against phages for decades. But until less than a decade ago, ...

Each form of bacteriophage is specialized to destroy one form of bacteria. In the test, phages -- as they are called informally -- find and attack the target bacteria in a sample, causing the ...

Each form of bacteriophage is specialized to destroy one form of bacteria. In the test, phages—as they are called informally—find and attack the target bacteria in a sample, causing the ...

Boyd English is the first patient in Western Canada to have the pain in his hip treated with bacteriophages. That’s using viruses to kill bacteria. English broke his hip in 1973 and got a hip ...

Each form of bacteriophage is specialized to destroy one form of bacteria. In the test, phages – as they are called informally – find and attack the target bacteria in a sample, causing the ...