In a new book, a science journalist recounts the story of a lifesaving treatment for infection that scientists broadly ...

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 ...

Shelby is an assistant editor for The Scientist. She earned her PhD from West Virginia University in immunology and ...

Urinary tract infections (UTIs), especially cystitis, are a common and frustrating health issue that affects half of all ...

Antibiotic and antifungal drug resistance pose a major public health threat. Live Science is covering the spread of this ...

Phages are not straightforward inanimate and stable substances, but evolvable and natural biological entities. Future sustainable phage therapy concepts should fully acknowledge the potential of ...

With the growing threat of AMR, interest has been rekindled in this antimicrobial approach that predates antibiotics. Lytic bacteriophages, or phages, are viruses that specifically target and kill ...

Bacteria are becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics. This "race" can lead ... analyzed the composition of one of the therapeutic phage cocktails and discovered a new type of bacteriophage ...

Researchers hope this is the next step in a national rollout of phage therapy, an alternative to antibiotics use. “This person is facing pretty dire consequences … something of a large ...

By effectively addressing biofilm-associated infections and reducing the reliance on high-cost, non-approved antibiotics, phage therapy not only improves patient outcomes but also represents a ...