Bacteriophages, or phages, are viruses that infect bacteria. They have shaped molecular biology for decades and are gaining renewed attention. However, studying how phages infect bacteria comes with technical challenges. The classic double-layer plaque assay has long been the standard method for phage quantification,...
Timely identification of infectious pathogens remains a major bottleneck in clinical care, particularly in conditions such as sepsis or complicated urinary tract infections where every hour of delay can worsen outcomes. Conventional diagnostics rely on culture-based workflows that often take days, struggle with low...
Abstract "Antimicrobial resistance is an increasing problem on a global scale. Rapid antibiotic susceptibility testing (AST) is urgently needed in the clinic to enable personalized prescriptions in high-resistance environments and to limit the use of broad-spectrum drugs. Current rapid phenotypic AST methods do not include species...