Phage therapy, where viruses are used to kill bacteria, became common in the 1920s, before antibiotics arrived to offer ...

Researchers develop Entelli-02, a precision phage therapy cocktail effective against multidrug-resistant Enterobacter cloacae ...

In a major advance for infectious disease treatment, researchers from Monash University and The Alfred have developed a ...

But a forgotten treatment, first discovered more than a century ago, could offer hope. Known as bacteriophage therapy—or "phage therapy," for short—it uses viruses that naturally prey on bacteria, ...

As antibiotic resistance reaches critical levels worldwide, the 8th World Congress on Targeting Phage Therapy (June 10–11, 2025) returns to Berlin, bringing together over 75 international speakers and ...

Researchers have developed a product that uses bacterial viruses, known as ‘bacteriophages’, to combat ...

Antimicrobial resistance, in which germs like bacteria and fungi no longer respond to medicines, is a rising global threat. When antibiotics and other drugs become ineffective, infections can become ...

It is not only antibiotics but also certain viruses—known as bacteriophages—that can kill off pathogenic bacteria. However, ...

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 the ...

Collateral damage to normal microbiota, which can be associated with the use of less-specific chemical antibacterials, [4] is avoided. Nonetheless, there are several challenges that must be addressed ...