About six years ago, Srivatsan Raman, a biochemist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his team took a trip to NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Standing a mile away from the ...

When we think of viruses, we mainly think of human diseases, particularly those that are difficult to deal with. However, there is a class of viruses known as bacteriophages that do not infect humans ...

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Through this agreement, MicrobiotiX aims to expand its clinical research footprint beyond Asia into regions with significant unmet medical need. With a clinical program already underway in South Korea ...

Martha Clokie (left) is a Professor of microbiology at the University of Leicester (UK), where she runs the first Centre for Phage Research in the UK. Her research is focused on different aspects of ...

A comprehensive review explores how bacteria resist phage therapy and offers innovative solutions to combat this challenge. The authors discuss mechanisms like CRISPR-Cas and biofilm formation, and ...

Scientists from New England Biolabs and Yale University have developed a new method to fight bacterial infections that are highly resistant to antibiotics. They used bacteriophages, which are viruses ...

Researchers have concocted a cocktail of bacteria-fighting viruses with the potential to successfully treat antibiotic-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae infections. In a recent study, researchers led by ...

Researchers in the Raman Lab at UW recently published a study discussing sending microbes into space at the International ...