Researchers used AI to design working bacteriophages for the first time, raising questions about antibiotic resistance and biosecurity.
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As the world has focused on the COVID-19 pandemic, other microbial foes are waging war on humans. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria pose a growing threat. But viruses may defeat them.
Cholera kills fast, and outbreaks are common in war-torn regions and after natural disasters where clean water is scarce. A new strategy to prevent cholera infections is a ‘cocktail’ of live virus.
Bacteria are becoming resistant to even the most powerful antibiotics. These expensive, hard-to-treat infections are prompting physicians to reassess using viruses to destroy bacteria.
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Precision Medicine and Emerging Biotechnologies, Arizona State University
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Director of Microbiology, University of California, San Diego
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Research Associate of Molecular Microbiology, Tufts University
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Professor of Molecular Biology & Microbiology, Tufts University
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Visiting Scientist, The Rockefeller University
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Professor of Microbiology, University of Leicester
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Professor of Microbiology, University of Salford