Unveiling the Remarkable Arsenal of Antiphage Defense Systems in Bacteria
Did you know that bacteria have developed incredibly diverse and fascinating defense systems to...
Anionic Synthetic Polymers Shield Bacteria from Phage Infections
Prepare to be amazed by the groundbreaking discovery made by researchers at the University of Warwick—a breakthrough that has the...
How is a phage cocktail prepared?
Phage cocktails are an innovative solution for treating bacterial infections. They are a mixture of two or more purified bacteriophages,...
Temperate and lysogenic infection: Are they the same?
Lysogenic cycle Lysogenic infection An infection that results in prophage genome replication but...
Are bacterial biofilms susceptible to bacteriophage attack?
The study of the pathogenesis of diseases caused by harmful bacteria aids in the development of knowledge on how to battle these microbes....
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...
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...
Is it possible for bacteria to develop bacteriophage resistance?
Bacteriophages are ancient viruses that exclusively parasitize bacteria. They are extremely diverse in their host range and they target...
Can lysogenic phages be trained to enter into the lytic cycle?
Have you ever come across the word phage training? Phages are viruses that eat up bacteria; that’s what many of us know. They are the...
