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Common Laboratory Demonstrations Used to Explain the Principle of Phage Typing
Introduction Phage typing is a classic microbiological technique used to distinguish between closely related bacterial strains based on their susceptibility to specific…
CRISPR-Cas
Decoding the Secrets of Gut Viruses Using CRISPR Technology
The human gut is home to millions of microbial lives, dominated by bacteria, Fungi and viruses. Despite being one of the prevalent…
biotemplating
A New Way to Fight Antibiotic Resistance: Silver Nanoparticles Built Using a Phage
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the biggest health challenges of our time. Many pathogens that were once easily treated with antibiotics…
What if!!
The Phage: Everything You Need to Know About Bacteriophages (And No, Not the Star Trek Disease)
When people search “The Phage”, something funny happens: the first result is often a Star Trek storyline about a devastating fictional disease…
Biofilm
Teaching Phages to Hunt Inside Pseudomonas Biofilms
If you have cystic fibrosis (CF), you hear the same name again and again: Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a stubborn bacterium that loves…
Nature
The Bee Gut’s Viral Mirror: How Tiny Phages Reflect the Microbial Universe Within
Inside a honey bee’s gut, an invisible war rages, not between bees and parasites, but between the bacteria that keep the bee…
