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Bacteriophages: Nature’s Solution to Drug-Resistant Bacteria
Bacteria are microorganisms that are present everywhere on Earth. They are essential for the proper functioning of many ecosystems and are used…
Author: Raphael Hans Lwesya
Raphael Hans Lwesya is a PhD researcher and science communicator focused on bacteriophages, microbiology, and bioinformatics. He is the founder of The Phage, a platform dedicated to phage research, news, protocols and job opportunities.
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Antibiotic drugs and Bacteriophages: Are they synergistic or antagonistic?
Many scientists, particularly those working on antimicrobial resistance, want to create the most effective anti-superbug weapon (multidrug-resistant strains of bacteria). Meanwhile, the…
CRISPR-Cas
Jumbo phage chimallin (ChmA) protein: The answer to CRISPR-Cas bacterial defense system?
Loughlin et, 2020 Jumbo phages are bacteriophages (phages) with genetic information (genomes) larger than 200 kilobases. These phages are known as “jumbo”…
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Phagemids: Phage plasmid hybrid vector
Due to its development as a hybrid of filamentous phage and plasmids, a phagemid is a cloning vector that can grow as…
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Top 4 most used Phage Display Systems (The Phage blog)
The most often utilized bacteriophages in phage display are filamentous bacteriophages from E. coli (f1, fd, and M13), while T4, T7, and…
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Inoviridae (Filamentous phages): Bacteriophages with a unique replication cycle
Bacteriophage is a term used to describe viruses that infect bacteria and archaea. While most phages are ‘micro predators’ that kill their…
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Game Theory between Bacteriophages and Pathogens
Game theory is widely used to analyze economic and social behaviours. Game theory is also used to analyze biological behaviour as well,…
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Are Bacteriophages (Phages) DNA Or RNA Viruses?
DNA and RNA. Credit Gabriela Slizewska A bacteriophage, also known as a phage, is a virus that infects and replicates within bacteria…
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What do Bacteriophage Diagrams Look Like? (Morphological classification of bacteriophages)
Note: This article discusses the former morphological classification system of bacteriophages. This system is no longer used and has been replaced by…
PHAGE RESISTANCE
How bacteria’s programed cell death stop phage infection spread in the population
Programmed cell death (PCD), sometimes termed apoptosis refers to any form of cell death mediated by an intracellular death program. Apoptosis is more precisely…