Armata Pharmaceuticals has posted early validation of its phage platform. The phase 1b/2a trial linked a bacteriophage ...

Usually, when a virus infects a cell by itself ... tools to study it in more detail than ever before. “The field of phage biology has seen an explosion over the last decade because more ...

Every living creature on Earth needs to protect itself from things that would do it harm. Bacteria are no different. And ...

Cat1 – which can deplete a metabolite essential for cellular function. Left without fuel, Cat1 helps to stop invading viruses ...

A computer virus that rewrites the executable file it targets rather than attaching itself to the file and running along with it. See virus. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other ...

When a virus infects the bacteria ... One promising alternative is phage therapy—the use of viruses that specifically infect and kill unwanted bacteria. But bacteria aren't defenseless; they ...

A bacteriophage is a type of virus that infects bacteria. In fact, the word "bacteriophage" literally means "bacteria eater," because bacteriophages destroy their host cells. All bacteriophages ...

Psychological barriers to phage acceptance remain. “Some people worry about getting treated with a virus,” Merril says, “but they don’t realize that many of today’s leading vaccines are ...

Although it is well established that host cells provide metabolic resources for virus replication ... into particulate biomass indicate that phage infection redirects ∼75% of nutrients into ...

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clinical – of mixing therapeutic phages into cocktails consisting of multiple virus types. We conclude with a discussion of the commercial and medical context of phage cocktails as therapeutic ...