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.
Many scientists, particularly those working on antimicrobial resistance, want to create the most effective anti-superbug weapon (multidrug-resistant strains of bacteria). Meanwhile, the…
Loughlin et, 2020 Jumbo phages are bacteriophages (phages) with genetic information (genomes) larger than 200 kilobases. These phages are known as “jumbo”…
Due to its development as a hybrid of filamentous phage and plasmids, a phagemid is a cloning vector that can grow as…
The most often utilized bacteriophages in phage display are filamentous bacteriophages from E. coli (f1, fd, and M13), while T4, T7, and…
Bacteriophage is a term used to describe viruses that infect bacteria and archaea. While most phages are ‘micro predators’ that kill their…
Game theory is widely used to analyze economic and social behaviours. Game theory is also used to analyze biological behaviour as well,…
DNA and RNA. Credit Gabriela Slizewska A bacteriophage, also known as a phage, is a virus that infects and replicates within bacteria…
Note: This article discusses the former morphological classification system of bacteriophages. This system is no longer used and has been replaced by…
Programmed cell death (PCD), sometimes termed apoptosis refers to any form of cell death mediated by an intracellular death program. Apoptosis is more precisely…
Bacteriophage therapy is gaining widespread attention as a result of the global superbug crisis. Superbugs are bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics;…
