This puts me in mind of how the Soviet Union deployed phage therapy, because they weren’t as good at pharmaceutical development as the US. I understand the idea is making a comeback in the face of antibiotic resistant strains; it seems human trials for phage therapy in the US were approved in 2019.
This further makes me wonder if we could develop something that attacked or fed on prions, via some method of targeting the fold in the protein. Is that a thing? Do any microscopic organisms hunt via geometry?
This puts me in mind of how the Soviet Union deployed phage therapy, because they weren’t as good at pharmaceutical development as the US. I understand the idea is making a comeback in the face of antibiotic resistant strains; it seems human trials for phage therapy in the US were approved in 2019.
This further makes me wonder if we could develop something that attacked or fed on prions, via some method of targeting the fold in the protein. Is that a thing? Do any microscopic organisms hunt via geometry?