Well, this could certainly be a game-changer in the era of resistant bacteria strains. Bacteriophages (viruses that specifically infect bacteria) are genetically engineered to basically become a new form of antibiotic.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/release...0508134554.htm
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The work is the first to demonstrate the safe and effective use of engineered bacteriophages in a human patient, says Graham Hatfull, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Such a treatment could offer a personalized approach to countering drug-resistant bacteria. It could even potentially be used more broadly for controlling diseases like tuberculosis.
"The idea is to use bacteriophages as antibiotics -- as something we could use to kill bacteria that cause infection," Hatfull says.
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