Bacteriophage treatments are not a ‘magic bullet’ and should be used in the hurdle approach to food safety, according to findings of a critical review by Campden BRI. Bacteriophages are viruses ...

Two new studies have advanced our understanding of bacteriophages or phages, which are viruses that infect bacterial cells. Bacteriophages are crucial organisms that can be found in the gut microbiome ...

Phage therapies offer promising treatments with reduced risk of antimicrobial resistance, but structural bottlenecks ...

Work in England to develop bacteriophages to tackle disease has received funding support. The £800,000 ($975,000) grant from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) will ...

Researchers at MIT have resolved that bacterial resistance should be overcome by hook or by hook. The hooks, in this case, are tail fibers, structures that bacteriophages use to snag bacteria and set ...

A regulatory pathway needs to be developed if the UK is to reap the benefits of bacteriophage therapy, Applied Microbiology International (AMI) has warned. France, Belgium and Poland are already ...

The pandemic of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has caused the death of at least 270,000 people as of the 8th of May 2020. This work stresses the potential role of bacteriophages to decrease the ...

This news release is available in Spanish. The research is being funded by the European Union's LIFE projects, and in addition to Azti-Tecnalia, researchers from Biopolis S.L. (Spain), the University ...

Biological engineers can program bacteriophages to kill different strains of E. coli by making mutations in the protein that the viruses use to bind to host cells. These engineered phages are less ...