The concept of bacteriophage therapy explores using viruses that specifically infect and kill bacteria as a treatment for bacterial infections. Identification and engineering of phages that ...

My daughter, Mallory, died in 2017 at the age of 25 from a multiply resistant bacterial lung infection that followed a double-lung transplant necessitated by cystic fibrosis. In the weeks before her ...

Carbapenem-resistant hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (CR-hvKp), exhibiting multidrug resistance, can rapidly spread in both hospital and community settings, increasing the risk of infection ...

SANTIAGO, Chile--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PhageLab, a biotechnology company developing bacteriophage-based applications to seek and destroy multidrug resistant bacteria in the livestock industry, announced ...

WASHINGTON, DC — Research on the gut microbiome — and clinical attention to it — has focused mainly on bacteria, but bacteriophages and fungi play critical roles as well, with significant influences ...

Researchers at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) and UChicago Medicine, including Asst. Prof. Mark Mimee (left) and research specialist Ella Rotman, have shown ...

As antibiotic resistance becomes an increasingly serious threat to our health, the scientific and medical communities are searching for new medicines to fight infections. Researchers at Gladstone ...

Every year, around 600 million people are struck down by foodborne illnesses. The culprits are often common yet dangerous bacteria, such as E. coli and Salmonella, that thrive in undercooked or ...

Bacteriophages — viruses that infect bacteria — are locked in a constant arms race with their microbial hosts. A family of phages known as jumbo phages have evolved a remarkable strategy of building a ...

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 ...

Engineers and biochemists have brought their skills together to make it possible for untrained users to confirm contamination in fluids using a biogel test that changes color in the presence of such ...