'Man on the Moon' moment – the year's big breakthroughs in medicine

Re:'Man on the Moon' moment – the year's big breakthroughs i... by ggm on Wednesday January 01, 2020 @12:05AM (#21926743)

Mentions phage therapy as a one liner. Kept alive on life support (metaphorically) by Soviet scientists across the life of the antibiotics era which increasingly feels like it too is on life support.

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Re:'Man on the Moon' moment – the year's big breakthroughs i... by perl4ever on Wednesday January 01, 2020 @01:49AM (#21926979)

I heard about that many years ago, but isn't it something that fundamentally has to be customized rather than mass produced? Of course, there are other therapies these days that are as well.

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Re:'Man on the Moon' moment – the year's big breakthroughs i... by TomMarius on Wednesday January 01, 2020 @04:49AM (#21927403)

Customized to the bacteria it should kill, not the patient.

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