The adventure of bacteriophage adsorption to the bacteria and the brownian motion October 2, 2021 How do phages adsorb to bacteria? Did you know that phage adsorption to bacterial cells involves Brownian motion? If no, then you are just...
Review: Can phages have a third life cycle? September 23, 2021 Have you ever heard of bacteriophages (phages)? If yes, then what about Pseudolysogeny? The two words are in one way or the other interconnected...
Which kind of lab is supposed to handle bacteriophages? June 17, 2021 Bacteriophages are viruses that affect bacteria and not plants, humans,s or any other mammals; due to their specificity, it poses no harm to other...
The virus that lives in sputum to feed on deadly bacteria (in patients with Cystic fibrosis) June 2, 2021 Introduction: There is a recent study about the extraction and detection of phage DNA from a sputum sample done by scientists from Stanford University...
Phage therapy (Bacteriophage therapy) April 19, 2021 Soon after Alexander Fleming’s 1928 discovery of penicillin and the beginning of Western medicine’s widespread use of antibiotics in the 1940s, Fleming himself warned...
Comprehensive Guide to Bacteriophage Counting through Plaque Assay February 25, 2021 Principle of Phage Plaque Assay When a suspension of an infective phage (e.g. T4 phage) is spread over the lawn of susceptible bacterial cells