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.
Transmission electron microscopy history Transmission electron microscope Electron microscopy has always had problems with imaging and interpretation, but the rise of digital…
Whether they contain TSA, MHA, LB, M9, or any other medium, making agar plates is a simple procedure. But there are a…
Phage titration (determination of the number of phage particles in stock) is an essential molecular biology technique. Most of the time, it…
This protocol was designed for microbiome analysis in sputum (although other samples can be used with slight modifications) and was adapted and…
Bacteriophage host range is by definition a repertoire of bacterial species and strains that are able to support the multiplication of the…
Netherton Syndrome (NS) is a rare genetic disorder that significantly weakens the skin’s barrier, making patients highly susceptible to chronic infections and…
Soon after Alexander Fleming’s 1928 discovery of penicillin and the beginning of Western medicine’s widespread use of antibiotics in the 1940s, Fleming…
In general, there are 5 steps for phage display technology as below: Step 1: Constructing the Phage Display Library Using sophisticated recombinant…
The Multiplicity of Infection (MOI) is a crucial metric in bacteriophage research and is defined as the ratio of the number of…
Bacteriophage enumeration is a crucial laboratory technique used to quantify the abundance of bacteriophages, viruses that infect and replicate within bacteria. This…
