It’s being called a “Hail Mary” for a Calgary man who suffers chronic pain – and so far, it seems to be working.

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 ...

involves the virus assimilating its genome with the host cell’s genome to achieve replication without killing the host. Bacteriophage (phage) are obligate intracellular viruses that specifically ...

Bacteriophages are viruses that solely and selectively target and kill bacteria, and are being proposed as an alternative to antibiotics, able to offer highly-selective activity against pathogens ...

A new study reveals how a single species of bacteria can sustain a diverse community of phage species, with implications for ...

New research from the University of Guelph will focus on determining if bacteriophages can replace antibiotics to reduce the ...

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

Qeen Biotechnologies Inc., a leader in bacteriophage-based solutions, is proud to announce its role in providing ...