Using microbes to battle pollution
The ability of bacteria to remove pollutants from soil, water, mine waste and other environments could be supercharged by a ‘friendly’ compatible virus, according to a […]
‘Good’ virus for common infection
A new study shows viruses can be used to save lives, developing the potential use of bacteriophages in bandages to treat life-threatening golden staph infections which […]
Diabetes research gets under way
New research at Flinders is looking at how bacteriophages – viruses that infect and kill bacteria – could be used to treat diabetes-related foot ulcers. The […]
Virus therapy to attack superbugs
Flinders University scientists are looking to bacteriophages – highly specific viruses – as the best way to attack antibiotic-resistant bacterial superbug infections.