Turning a Phage (VIDEO)

University of California - San Diego

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A chronic bacterial infection kept 65-year-old Joel Grimwood from getting the heart transplant he desperately needed. UC San Diego Health doctors used an experimental bacteriophage therapy -- viruses that eat bacteria - to eliminate the infection. Grimwood got his new heart.

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