Gene-silencing techniques, such as antisense-RNA targeting of essential phage-encoded genes (for example, DNA replication) can effectively inhibit the propagation of virulent phages. Trans ...

The tail includes a collar (covered with contractile proteins for the most elaborated bacteriophages, such as the T2 and T4 phages ... Technically, a phage behaves like a conventional human ...

In this way, scientists could retain only positive clones and immediately use their selected phage to generate more phages. This made screening higher throughput, as researchers could screen thousands ...

In the first semester, Calvin students isolate phages from various environments, likely finding phages that have never been seen before. The class spends the remainder of the first semester purifying ...

Viruses of bacteria, known as bacteriophages or phages, were discovered nearly 100 years ago. Their potential as antibacterial agents was appreciated almost immediately, with the first 'phage ...

Barr and his team applied highly purified T4 phage, a well studied bacteriophage that infects Escherichia coli, across three mammalian cell lines. The cells readily gobbled up and internalized the ...

One alternative to antibiotics is phage ... phages were still floating inside them. Typically, most phages would be gone because they were quickly filtered by the liver and spleen, but sometimes a ...

5 in Nature. "It's a surprisingly complicated thing for a phage to be doing," he said. Jumbo phages belong to a group of viruses called bacteriophages, or phages for short, which were discovered ...

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 ...