Antibiotic Development Question: Should A Phage Library Equal One Application?

FDA may have to take a personalized medicine approach when deciding how to classify a phage bank used to create the treatments.

3d render Bacteriophage viruses infecting bacterial cell
3-D rendering of Bacteriophage viruses infecting bacterial cell

Adaptive Phage Therapeutics is moving toward commercialization of a potentially non-traditional antimicrobial treatment, but has yet to answer a simple, yet very important question.

"That was probably one of my biggest questions when I started Adapted Phage Therapeutics: What's the drug?" company CEO Greg Merril said June 14 during a Duke-Margolis Center workshop on...

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