With the rise of antibiotics in the 1930s, phage therapy (the use of viruses called bacteriophages to fight bacterial infections) was abandoned. Today, the increase in antibiotic resistance makes ...

It’s being called a “Hail Mary” for a Calgary man who suffers chronic pain – and so far, it seems to be working.

One alternative to antibiotics is phage therapy, which harnesses viruses to attack bacterial cells. Conceived over a century ...

With the rapid development of antibiotics in the 1930s, phage therapy -- using viruses known as bacteriophages or phages to tackle bacterial infections -- fell into oblivion.

New research from the University of Guelph will focus on determining if bacteriophages can replace antibiotics to reduce the ...

Merril was interested. "I'd like to try to use bacteriophages to overcome antibiotic resistance problems," he told Biswas. "Would you come work in my lab?" Biswas was intrigued. "I said ...

With the rapid development of antibiotics in the 1930s, phage therapy—using viruses known as bacteriophages or phages to tackle bacterial infections—fell into oblivion. But as the current rise ...

Viruses that infect and kill bacteria, called phages, hold promise as new treatment types for dangerous infections, including ...