Bacteria and viruses have emerged as novel therapeutic entities in the battle against cancer. Utilizing these living entities as curative agents has a lengthy historical background [64,65,66]. These biological agents can directly assail and remove malignant cells or serve as a strategy to enhance ...
Viruses called phages hold enormous promise as a way to fight infection, but don’t expect to see them in the clinic soon.
Bacteria and viruses have emerged as novel therapeutic entities in the battle against cancer. Utilizing these living entities as curative agents has a lengthy historical background [64,65,66]. These biological agents can directly assail and remove malignant cells or serve as a strategy to enhance ...
Could Bacteria-Fighting Viruses Replace Overused Antibiotics?Brendan Borrell
Medical workers then treated him with bacteriophages of pseudomonas aeruginosa and saved QIU's life. (124) Today's scientists are faced with a difficult task to challenge the virus, which can cause some known infections such as influenza and hepatitis. In fact, viruses are not toxins, but ...
facing threats from immune cells, antibiotics, or phages— viruses that only infect bacteria. Over the course of evolution, bacteria have developed numerous strategies to protect themselves from such dangers. But how do bacteria sense potential threats in their environment and initiate protective measure...
Paired with other tiny organisms like viruses and fungi, they make what’s known as the microbiota, or the microbiome. Like a fingerprint, each person's microbiota is unique: The mix of bacteria in your body is different from everyone else's mix. It’s determined partly by your mother’s...
Bacteria and viruses infect the body in different ways, Muhlestein told Live Science: Viruses make their way into cells and cause damage, while bacteria stay outside the cells and release toxins into the bloodstream. The latter mechanism causes more inflammation in the blood, which can cause dam...
WASHINGTON, June 23 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. researchers have discovered viruses that can infect bacteria in kitchen sponges, which may prove useful in fighting bacteria that cannot be killed by antibiotics alone. The study presented on Sunday at American Society for Microbiology's annual meeting sh...
Bacteriophages—or phages—are viruses that infect bacteria and are present in large concentrations in the mucosa that cover the internal organs of animals. Immunoglobulin (Ig) domains on the phage surface interact with mucin molecules, and this has been attributed to an increase in the encounter ...