{
  "id": 5708432,
  "title": "Discovery of novel enzybiotic candidates targeting human bacterial pathogens through large-scale viral-host profiling",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/04/discovery-of-novel-enzybiotic-candidates-targeting-human-bacterial",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-04T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.01.748673v1?rss=1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "The rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria demands alternative therapeutic strategies, with bacteriophage (phage) therapy and phage-derived enzybiotics emerging as promising approaches. However, identifying candidate phages against specific pathogens has historically been a bottleneck due to the need for cultivation methods to assess host range and lytic activity. Advances in metagenomic…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}