India, June 2 -- image credit- freepik

Every year, drug-resistant bacteria kill over a million people worldwide and the numbers are increasing. Antibiotics, the drugs we have relied on since the 1940s, are becoming increasingly ineffective. The answer, it turns out, has existed for billions of years bacteriophages, viruses that specifically infect and lyse bacterial cells. Scientists are now racing to harness their therapeutic potential, and emerging evidence suggests they could redefine our approach to infectious disease management.

The Antibiotic Resistance Crisis: Why We Need Alternatives

The golden age of antibiotic discovery, which once yielded over 40 distinct classes, has stalled. Today, the pipeline faces severe bottlenecks; ou...