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Author: Raphael Hans Lwesya

Hello there! I'm Raphael Hans Lwesya. I have a deep interest in phage research and science communication. I strive to simplify complex ideas and present the latest phage-related research in an easy-to-digest format. Thank you for visiting The Phage blog. If you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to leave a comment or contact me at raphael.hans@thephage.xyz.
HIV being cut by a CRISPR

CRISPR: Promising cure for HIV

March 20, 2024

Researchers are exploring a groundbreaking technique to potentially eradicate HIV from the body, offering a glimpse of hope for transforming this method into a…

Horizontal gene transfer between bacteria

Bacteriophage: The horizontal gene transfer machine

March 11, 2024

The field of bacteriophage research presents a complex landscape, where scientists grapple with the intricate dynamics of gene transfer mediated by these viral entities….

Rapid Label-Free Detection at the Individual Virion Level with Optical Power

Scientists Uncover Rapid Label-Free Detection at the Individual Virion Level with Optical Power

March 2, 2024

Scientists from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have introduced a game-changing technique that uses light to handle and recognize individual bacteriophages, which are…

Engineered Phages deceive BBB to sneak drugs into the brain

February 24, 2024

There is a strong castle defending the brain, the body’s most important organ, inside the maze-like human body. The blood-brain barrier (BBB), a highly…

How Synthetic Biology Can Help Us Make a Perfect Bacteriophage

February 21, 2024

Recently, I had an interview with a well-established scientist in the phage world, Dr. Jean Paul Pirney from Queen Astrid Military Hospital in Belgium….

Phage lysin produced by human cells carried in vesicles

Scientists Used mRNA Technology to Express Phage-Endolysin in Human Cells

February 13, 2024

Researchers at the Institute of Medical Microbiology, Virology, and Hygiene and their colleagues from the Core Facility Proteome Analysis at University Medicine Rostock, Germany,…

Phage therapy vs antibiotics

Which is better: antibiotics or phage therapy?

February 9, 2024

Antibiotics have long been the go-to treatment for bacterial infections, but with the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, researchers have been exploring alternative treatments. One…

M13 phage in the detection of Alzheimer’s disease in brain

Bacteriophages in the Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease in Brain Tissue

January 31, 2024

Although there have been previous studies linking the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and engineered bacteriophages, this one has gone a step further by…

The Toilet’s Secret: Phages Reveals How Flushing Spreads Viruses

January 27, 2024

In a study conducted by scientists from the Department of Environmental Science at the University of Arizona and researchers from Global Research and Development…

Schematic of steps involved in the arrayed CRISPRi knockdown experiments to assess gene essentiality in phage infectivity cycle.

Rapid Tracking and Identifying Phages through Barcoding

January 24, 2024

A groundbreaking study from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. This research introduces an innovative method to swiftly label and characterize bacteriophages,…

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