Western firms are becoming interested in a Soviet medicine
“Phage therapy” aims to use viruses to cure bacterial infections | Science & technology
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“Phage therapy” aims to use viruses to cure bacterial infections | Science & technology
Start-ups and scientists are in a race against time to develop new therapies based on phages, tiny bacteria-destroying virus that have the potential to create an alternative to antibiotics.
Phages, long relegated to the fringes of infectious disease treatment, may overcome antibiotic resistance and help patients with no other options.
For decades, most of the world ignored bacteriophage treatments. But the Soviets didn't.
The viruses that prey on human diseases By Pearly Jacob18th January 2021 Once scorned as Soviet pseudoscience, phage therapy is gaining ground as a potential solution to antibiotic resistance but regulatory challenges may be its biggest hurdle. T Three years ago, Esteban Diaz was advised by his doctors to get on the lung transplant list after a life-long battle with cystic fibrosis. The disease causes excessive production of mucus in the lungs and pancreas, leaving patients extremely vulnerable to bacterial infections. In the 47-year-old Frenchman’s case, the antibiotics he had been prescri...