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Antibiotic drugs and Bacteriophages: Are they synergistic or antagonistic?

October 2, 2022

Many scientists, particularly those working on antimicrobial resistance, want to create the most effective anti-superbug weapon (multidrug-resistant strains of bacteria). Meanwhile, the central question…

Isolation of edwardsiella-specific bacteriophages from fish

September 11, 2022

Aquaculture, the culture of all types of aquatic animals and plants in fresh, back rush, and marine water environments, is one of the fastest-growing…

Jumbo phage chimallin (ChmA) protein: The answer to CRISPR-Cas bacterial defense system?

August 19, 2022

Loughlin et, 2020 Jumbo phages are bacteriophages (phages) with genetic information (genomes) larger than 200 kilobases. These phages are known as “jumbo” because they…

Phagemids: Phage plasmid hybrid vector

August 12, 2022

Due to its development as a hybrid of filamentous phage and plasmids, a phagemid is a cloning vector that can grow as a plasmid…

Top 4 most used Phage Display Systems (The Phage blog)

July 4, 2022

The most often utilized bacteriophages in phage display are filamentous bacteriophages from E. coli (f1, fd, and M13), while T4, T7, and phage have…

Inoviridae (Filamentous phages): Bacteriophages with a unique replication cycle

July 3, 2022

Bacteriophage is a term used to describe viruses that infect bacteria and archaea. While most phages are ‘micro predators’ that kill their bacterial hosts,…

Phage inserts DNA content into the bacteria.

Game Theory between Bacteriophages and Pathogens

May 19, 2022

Game theory is widely used to analyze economic and social behaviours. Game theory is also used to analyze biological behaviour as well, just as…

Are Bacteriophages (Phages) DNA Or RNA Viruses?

May 11, 2022

DNA and RNA. Credit Gabriela Slizewska A bacteriophage, also known as a phage, is a virus that infects and replicates within bacteria and archaea….

What do Bacteriophage Diagrams Look Like? (Morphological classification of bacteriophages)

May 4, 2022

What do bacteriophages look like? In both academic and non-academic contexts around the world, a well-shaped particle with a clearly separated head, tail (neck,…

How bacteria’s programed cell death stop phage infection spread in the population

April 21, 2022

Programmed cell death (PCD), sometimes termed apoptosis refers to any form of cell death mediated by an intracellular death program. Apoptosis is more precisely defined as…