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Hello, this week the mysterious stuff that's passing right through you right now, and it literally holds the galaxy together but we

have no idea what it is so we're talking to the scientists who are trying to find out

plus in the news the 100 year old technology that's helping us fight

infections we can't currently treat and evidence that wasps can size things up.

Oh dear we'll be hearing how. I'm Katie Hayler. I'm Chris Smith and this is the

Naked Scientist. The Naked Scientists podcast is powered by UKfast. Co. UK.

Now, at first this week a technology initially pioneered about a century ago,

a technology initially pioneered about a century ago but then largely

abandoned with the advent of antibiotics has received a shot in the arm and

save the life of a patient at Great Orman Street all thanks to modern technology.

I'm referring to phage therapy, the use of viruses that kill bacteria to fight infections.

Graham Hatful is at the University of Pittsburgh.

The headline is, we've used bacteria fages

to treat a patient with an infection

with a very nasty antibiotic-resistant organism. Colleagues of ours at Great Orman Street Hospital in London,

they had patients that had cystic fibrosis,

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