using the host cell machinery to copy their genome, and expressing bacteriophage genes. The researchers found, however, that some strains of bacteria appeared to be less vulnerable to ...

A bacteriophage is a type of virus that infects ... Bacteriophages occasionally remove a portion of their host cells' bacterial DNA during the infection process and then transfer this DNA into ...

Students isolate novel bacteriophage from the environment and characterize those phage using current research techniques including electron microscopy and DNA analysis. The genomic DNA from some of ...

In the study, a group of scientists led by the head of the laboratory Artem Isaev analyzed the composition of one of the therapeutic phage cocktails and discovered a new type of bacteriophage—it ...