Bacteriophages are back in the news, so we’ll start by linking to where where our researchers found it [1].,the ever excellent Ethan Ennals of the Daily Mail, whose work has often been showcased in our humble blog.
Ethan has been following the work of the admirable Professor Ran Nir Paz of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who has been injecting an effective new phage virus to combat resistant strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Which is where we come in. We wanted to find a link to an original Ran Nir Paz paper, or at least a preprint or two, for readers with a little time on their hands. However, a search for the Professor produced a cornucopia of publications and work, all centred around bacteriophage technology and the investigation of resistant diseases. And the good Prof. has been at it for years, right back to the time when we were plaintively calling for research into bacteriophages in the very earliest iterations of our blog.
There’s a moral here. Even when a country has slid into the grip of shouty politicians and religious maniacs, there are still good, thoughtful, people quietly working in the background on things of real importance. We think Professor Ran Nir Paz is a prime example of what this blog is all about.
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