According to the latest research by InsightAce Analytic, the global market for phage therapy was valued at US$ 28.8 Mn and it is expected to reach US$ 116.6 million in 2027, recording a promising CAGR of 19% during the period of 2019-2027. In the current scenario, phage therapy market is not well established with no FDA approved product. Current market is driven by cPT products and natural phage platforms from local vendors such as Microgen Russia and Phage Therapy Centre, Georgia. Strong product pipeline with increasing research and development activities in phage therapy market.

Researchers have discovered that patients with alcoholic hepatitis had high numbers of a destructive gut bacterium and they were able to use a cocktail of phages to target and kill the bacteria, eradicating the disease.

Antibiotic resistance is a rapidly progressing phenomenon, causing huge headaches for public health planners. However, a new study demonstrates a novel strategy to kill bacteria using natural bacteria-infecting viruses called bacteriophages, or phages for short, which kill off their hosts. The bottleneck for researchers has been rapidly identifying and modifying known phages to weaponize against infectious bacteria. The new approach deals with this by using a single common framework upon which modifications can be made.

<p>The phages can be programmed to blow up a single harmful bacterium without blowing up other, helpful strains that occur naturally in a person’s body, as antibiotics do. In other pharmaceutical news, Novartis nabs U.S. approval for its experimental sickle cell drug.</p>

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The global superbug crisis isn’t on everyone’s radar like climate change is, but my family is trying to change that. I am an infectious disease epidemiologist, yet my experience with antimicrobial resistance was intensely personal. While my husband and I were on vacation in Egypt in 2015, he became infected with a rare bacteria I hadn’t seen since my petri plates in college back in the 1980s. It infected an abscess in his abdomen and threatened to take his life.

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While medical research has helped us overcome many health threats, we now face a new type of crisis: Many dangerous bacteria are becoming resistant to the drugs meant to fight them. Where do we go from here?

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Joel Grimwood was dying. A bacterial slime impervious to antibiotics was growing on a life-sustaining heart implant, infecting his sternum, poisoning his blood, and slowly consuming his chest tissue. His implanted heart pump was meant to be a short-term solution while he waited for a heart transplant but, once it was infected, it couldn’t be safely removed. 

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very two to three months, Ritam Das, Saroj Chaudhary and Ritu Arora — who are undergraduate and PhD students at the Acharya Narendra Dev College in South Delhi’s Govindpuri — travel to some of the dirtiest corners of the city to collect soil samples.

They take samples from drains, sewage and even places where people spit. “The dirtiest sample is the best sample,” says Ritam Das. But what are these “best” samples for?

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