Phage therapy, which uses viruses known as bacteriophages to treat bacterial infections, is a long-standing medical procedure whose mechanisms of action are still poorly understood. Scientists from ...

Bacteria need to be able to adapt to the changing and challenging environments in which they live to survive and multiply. One of the genetic processes by which they do this is transduction. In this ...

We develop phage cocktails as precision medicines to target and destroy specific harmful bacteria.’’ This is the mission statement of BiomX, a biotech company. Bacteriophage cocktails for treating ...

A recent study claimed that the Ganga river has 1,100 types of bacteriophages that selectively target and destroy bacteria, thus purifying the water naturally. Researcher Dr Ajay Sonkar, who conducted ...

Unifying antibodies, antibiotic activity and gene transfer, bacterial viruses have great potential for improving human health, Andy Extance found at the London meeting, 'Exploiting bacteriophages for ...

The belief that the Ganga River possesses self-purifying properties due to the presence of bacteriophages has come under scrutiny. Renowned hepatologist Dr Cyriac Abby Philips, widely recognized as ...

A new study has revealed that the Ganga River possesses a unique self-purification mechanism, eliminating harmful bacteria at a rate 50 times faster than any other freshwater river in the world, news ...

I'm on the hunt for a microbial saviour – a type of virus that can treat infections rather than cause them. We all know the viral bad guys – Covid, flu, norovirus, herpes, chicken pox, measles… the ...