Phages break up plaques

From Toronto, at a meeting of the American Society for Microbiology

Phages, which are viruses that infect bacteria, cut through plaques in the brains of mice engineered to develop a disease similar to Alzheimer’s. That action helped the rodents recover.

“Phages dissolve plaque,” says Beka Solomon of Tel Aviv University in Israel. “We saw improvements in memory and smell tests” of the mice.