> However, due to the scientific barriers of the Cold War, this knowledge was not translated and did not proliferate across the world.
I would hazard a guess that the reasons are other than translation. Keen scientists learn enough of foreign languages to read papers in their area of interest - reading scientific language in a speciality area is much easier than learning a language generally (I personally know scientists that have self-taught themselves for Russian, German, French, etcetera).
“Many researchers agree that the development of phage therapy has stalled because of ‘concerns over intellectual property protection’ and ‘lack of a predefined regulatory pathway’ (Kingwell, 2015)” https://academic.oup.com/phe/article/13/1/82/5741402?login=f...
> across the world.
Is that an American centric worldview? It makes little sense. Maybe the USA and allies, but there is a lot more to the world than that, and phages haven’t been used. The reasons for that are very unlikely to be due to what appears to be a simplistic world view.
I gather phage therapy was seen in Western bloc nations as akin to Lamarckian evolution, so even otherwise keen scientists tended to dismiss it. And of course, antibiotics work really well (until they don't.)
I have no idea how widespread phage therapy was in the Soviet bloc nations.
I would hazard a guess that the reasons are other than translation. Keen scientists learn enough of foreign languages to read papers in their area of interest - reading scientific language in a speciality area is much easier than learning a language generally (I personally know scientists that have self-taught themselves for Russian, German, French, etcetera).
“Many researchers agree that the development of phage therapy has stalled because of ‘concerns over intellectual property protection’ and ‘lack of a predefined regulatory pathway’ (Kingwell, 2015)” https://academic.oup.com/phe/article/13/1/82/5741402?login=f...
> across the world.
Is that an American centric worldview? It makes little sense. Maybe the USA and allies, but there is a lot more to the world than that, and phages haven’t been used. The reasons for that are very unlikely to be due to what appears to be a simplistic world view.