An international team of scientists, co-led by researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, has created the first pan-cancer mycobiome atlas — a survey of 35 types of cancer and their […]
Ferring Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has edged ahead in the race to bring the first microbiome-based drug to market in the United States, with its product REBYOTA receiving the thumbs up from the FDA’s Vaccines and Related […]
Ferring Pharmaceuticals today announced that the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a positive vote for RBX2660, an investigational microbiota-based live biotherapeutic studied for its potential […]
The Microbiome Signature Project arranges a Pitch Day on 27 September in Malmö, Sweden as the final event of the three-year-long project. It is a unique event to showcase startups in Medicon Valley within the […]
Pherecydes Pharma (FR0011651694 – ALPHE) (Paris:ALPHE), a biotechnology company specializing in precision phage therapy to treat resistant and/or complicated bacterial infections, announces the registration of its phagogram as an in vitro diagnostic test (“Phagogram 1.5”) […]
Key studies in the last decade have shown that the gut microbiome, the collection of hundreds of bacterial species that live in the human digestive system, influences neural development, response to cancer immunotherapies, and other […]
Gensaic, a company that seeks to reimagine gene therapy, announced today that it has entered into a strategic collaboration agreement with Ovid Therapeutics. Under the terms of the collaboration, Gensaic will exclusively develop phage-derived gene […]
A genome engineering-based systematic strategy for developing phage resistant Escherichia coli strains has been successfully developed through the collaborative efforts of a team led by Professor Sang Yup Lee, Professor Shi Chen, and Professor Lianrong […]
For the first time, scientists have designed a phage combination therapy that can precisely target and suppress gut bacteria associated with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). Presented on August 4 in the journal Cell, the work […]
Consumers are increasingly focused on health and nutrition in their decision-making. Alongside this, interest and understanding of the importance of the gut microbiota in health and disease continues to grow. The global market for functional […]
New research shows that a needle-free mucosal bacteriophage (phage) T4-based COVID-19 vaccine is effective against SARS-CoV-2 infection. The findings were published in mBio, an open access journal of the American Society for Microbiology. In recent […]