BiomX Wants To Reverse The Focus Of Microbiome Therapy

Emerging Company Profile: Where other microbiome-focused firms seek to add bacteria to the patient's gut, Israel's BiomX thinks it can treat IBD and other conditions with phage therapies that subtract harmful microbiota.

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Although not yet in the clinic, BiomX Ltd. thinks it may be able to "zip through" clinical development once it starts testing its bacteriophage cocktail therapies intended to address microbiome-based diseases by subtracting, rather than adding, bacteria to the patient's digestive tract.

Based in Ness Ziona, Israel, the firm is working on a therapy to treat inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) by focusing...

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