The virus that lives in sputum to feed on deadly bacteria (in patients with Cystic fibrosis)
Introduction: There is a recent study about the extraction and detection of phage DNA from a sputum...
Can phage be used as a bio preservative for fish?
Fish preservation Bacteriophage as a bio preservative Bacteriophagesfit in the class of natural antimicrobial and their effectiveness in...
Bacteriophage host range determination (Culture-Based Approach)
Bacteriophage host range is by definition a repertoire of bacterial species and strains that are able to support the multiplication of the...
Is phage therapy a solution to Netherton Syndrome?
Read the story about a patient who had been hospitalized every 2 months due to infectious...
Phage therapy (Bacteriophage therapy)
Soon after Alexander Fleming’s 1928 discovery of penicillin and the beginning of Western medicine’s widespread use of antibiotics in...
Phage Display procedures (Protocol)
In general, there are 5 steps for phage display technology as below: STEP1: Construct phage display library Recombinant DNA technology is...
The multiplicity of infection (MOI) of the phage explained
The Multiplicity of Infection (MOI) is a crucial metric in bacteriophage research and is defined as...
Study: 70,000 new virus species in the human gut, creates bacteriophage opportunities
Phage attacking bacteria European researchers have reported the identification of over 140,000 viral species living in the human gut, more...
Preparation of Phage Lysates / bacteriophage enumeration (pfu/ml)
Preparation of Phage Lysates Inoculate 5 ml of lambda-broth in a glass culture tube with a single colony of an appropriate host strain of...
Isolation of Phage DNA – Miniprep Protocol
Extracting the DNA from a bacteriophage is essential in order to study its genetic makeup and...
