In the German science program Quarks, Bärbel Stecher, professor of #IntestinalMicrobiome, explains how #bacteriophages target specific bacteria and their relevance for #AntibioticResistance and the #GutMicrobiome. Watch now: http://go.tum.de/112324

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Big Picture Science for Sep. 29, 2025: Not Just a Phage

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We’re hurtling towards a post-antibiotic world, as the overuse of antibiotics has given rise to dangerous drug-resistant bacteria. Can we fight back using viruses as weapons? An obscure medical therapy uses certain viruses called bacteriophages to treat infection. For a century attempts to turn phage-therapy into a life-saving treatment have faltered, but today there’s renewed interest in this approach. Can we use phages to forestall the antibiotic crisis?

Guests:

* Claas Kirchhelle – Medical historian at the University College, Dublin
* Tom Ireland – Journalist, editor of The Biologist and author of “The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage”
* Steffanie Strathdee – Associate Dean of Global Health Sciences at the University of California San Diego
* Tom Patterson – Professor of psychiatry at the University of California San Diego

Originally aired August 12, 2024

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A bacteriophage is a virus that infects and replicates within bacteria. There are more bacteriophages on the planet than any other organism on Earth.
Bacteriophages are an alternative to antibiotics.

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an interesting article about bacteriophage and also a link to a free science exhibition happening july first to july sixth and a link to maybe you (not sure yet if it only applies to people in the uk) helping find a new phage 😃

#science #citizenscience #bacteriophages

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czryvm3nlvdo

Phage display (Microbiology 🦠)

Phage display is a laboratory technique for the study of protein–protein, protein–peptide, and protein–DNA interactions that uses bacteriophages to connect proteins with the genetic information that encodes them. In this technique, a gene encoding a protein of interest is inserted into a phage coat protein gene, causing the phage to "di...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_display

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