Some viruses only infect bacterial cells; they are known as bacteriophages, and they have real potential to defeat antibiotic ...

Fig. 1 | Engineering bacteriophage-based antibacterial agents. Cytophage has developed a versatile technology for the rapid engineering of traits, such as lytic, structural, attachment and other ...

Bacteriophage (phage) are obligate intracellular viruses that specifically infect bacteria and thus exhibit both lytic and lysogenic phases to their lifecycles. The differences between the lytic and ...

Aims: Novel anticancer strategies have employed bacteriophages as drug carriers and display platforms for anticancer agents; however, bacteriophage-based platforms maintain their natural ...

Boyd English is the first patient in Western Canada to have the pain in his hip treated with bacteriophages. That’s using viruses to kill bacteria. English broke his hip in 1973 and got a hip ...