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 ...

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 ...

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 the advent and mass production of antibiotics caused a decline in phage therapy, the recent rise in antibiotic resistance has renewed the global interest in this line of treatment. In this ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A cryo-EM depiction of jumbo phage compared with a T4 phage virus and a ribosome particle. Villa Lab, UC San Diego Must be used in conjunction with Nature paper on jumbo phage-infected bacterial ...