Viruses known as ‘phages’ might become an essential tool, as antibiotic-resistant bacteria threaten conventional remedies.
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Personalized medicine is a promising treatment for recurrent cancer and superbugs, but it is labour-intensive and expensive, and pathways for its regulatory approval and reimbursement are complicated.
The Nobel Prize-winning Luria−Delbrück experiment showed that random mutations in bacteria can allow them to develop resistance by chance.
Researchers discovered a satellite virus latching onto the neck of another virus called MindFlayer. Studying the viral arms race between similar viruses could lead to new ways to fight infections.
Babies guts found to have ten times as many viral species as bacterial species.
Financial support for science and research in Nigeria remains pathetic. This has led to the deterioration in the quantity and quality of trained virologists at universities.
Phages, or viruses that infect bacteria, can lie dormant within chromosomes until they’re triggered to replicate and burst out of their hosts.
Viruses have gotten a bad rap for the many illnesses and pandemics they’ve caused. But viruses are also genetic innovators – and possibly the pioneers of using DNA as the genetic blueprint of life.
As the world has focused on the COVID-19 pandemic, other microbial foes are waging war on humans. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria pose a growing threat. But viruses may defeat them.
We found a new way to revert antibiotic resistance. It involves using phage therapy to resensitise a type of bacteria to antibiotics.
While a few are killers, viruses are actually important to human health and incredibly useful in medicine.
Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria. But could they be key in solving the antibiotic resistance epidemic?
While some viruses make us sick, others can fight against bacteria, or protect us from more harmful viruses.
Many articles describe the rise of superbugs - bacteria that are resistant to antibiotic drugs - as inevitable. But society has the knowledge to stop the spread of these microbes.
Cholera kills fast, and outbreaks are common in war-torn regions and after natural disasters where clean water is scarce. A new strategy to prevent cholera infections is a ‘cocktail’ of live virus.
Bacteria are becoming resistant to even the most powerful antibiotics. These expensive, hard-to-treat infections are prompting physicians to reassess using viruses to destroy bacteria.
Just because you don’t have the flu doesn’t mean that your aren’t teeming with viruses inside and out. But what are all these viruses doing, if they aren’t making you sick?
The 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to work on how to use the principles of evolution to create new medical treatments and renewable fuels.
When commemorating our troops, doctors and nurses this Anzac Day, consider also tipping your hat to the discovery of bacteriophages. In the post-antibiotic era, our health might just depend on them.
Top contributors
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Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Associate Director of Microbiology, University of California, San Diego
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Visiting Scientist, The Rockefeller University
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Senior Lecturer in School of Biological Sciences, Microbiology, Monash University
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Professor of Biostatistics, Texas A&M University
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Monash University
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Research Associate of Molecular Microbiology, Tufts University
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Group Leader, Gut viruses & Viromics, Quadram Institute
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Precision Medicine and Emerging Biotechnologies, Arizona State University
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Professor of Molecular Biology & Microbiology, Tufts University
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Lecturer in Bacteriophage Bioinformatics, University of Leicester
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Postdoctoral researcher in Microbiology and Bioinformatics, University College Cork
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Research Assistant, University of Canberra
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Professor of Biocchemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University
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Master's student in the Biomedical Discovery and Commercialization program, McMaster University
