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Fresh stories, protocols, and interviews from the phage world.
PHAGE THERAPY
Scientists Uncover Rapid Label-Free Detection at the Individual Virion Level with Optical Power
Scientists from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have introduced a game-changing technique that uses light to handle and recognize individual bacteriophages,…
Synthetic Biology
Engineered Phages deceive BBB to sneak drugs into the brain
There is a strong castle defending the brain, the body’s most important organ, inside the maze-like human body. The blood-brain barrier (BBB),…
PHAGE THERAPY
How Synthetic Biology Can Help Us Make a Perfect Bacteriophage
Recently, I had an interview with a well-established scientist in the phage world, Dr. Jean Paul Pirney from Queen Astrid Military Hospital…
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Scientists Used mRNA Technology to Express Phage-Endolysin in Human Cells
Researchers at the Institute of Medical Microbiology, Virology, and Hygiene and their colleagues from the Core Facility Proteome Analysis at University Medicine…
PHAGE THERAPY
Which is better: antibiotics or phage therapy?
Antibiotics have long been the go-to treatment for bacterial infections, but with the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, researchers have been exploring alternative…
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Bacteriophages in the Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease in Brain Tissue
Although there have been previous studies linking the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and engineered bacteriophages, this one has gone a step…
