Jason Gill, who studies bacteriophage biology at Texas A&M University, says that it is not easy to predict if a phage will induce antibiotic sensitivity.

More than a million people a year are already dying from infections caused by microbes that are resistant to treatment – it's ...

Some things just go together in your belly: peanut butter and jelly, salt and pepper, bacteria and bacteria-eating viruses. For the bacterial species that inhabit your gut, there's a frenzy of viruses ...

In methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, evolution of bacteriophage resistance causes trade-offs that re-sensitize the bacteriato β-lactam antibiotics.

Improving antimicrobial stewardship through novel anti-infectives is the need of the hour: Dr Surendran: Shardul Nautiyal, ...

Evolutionary biologist Tiffany Taylor explores the work being done to resensitize antibiotic-resistant bacteria to drugs as a strategy to defend ourselves against the growing antibiotic resistance ...

Around a hundred years ago in the former Soviet Union, there were major efforts to develop bacteriophages for medical use. The approach really didn’t catch on in Western countries, overshadowed there ...

The curious history of life-saving viruses Bacteria-eating viruses called bacteriophages are drawing new interest, Lina Zeldovich writes in her new book ...

BiomX has published promising phase 1b/2a trial results in Nature Communications, demonstrating that its phage cocktail BX004 ...

The trial linked the bacteriophage to improvements in patients with infections, opening the door to work to address the limitations of antibiotics.