Phages are viruses that attack bacteria by injecting their DNA, then usurping bacterial machinery to reproduce. Eventually, ...

Gene-silencing techniques, such as antisense-RNA targeting of essential phage-encoded genes (for example, DNA replication) can effectively inhibit the propagation of virulent phages. Trans ...

Jumbo phages use a protein shield to protect their DNA from bacterial attacks. A special handshake controls which molecules ...

You will use research methods to characterize and analyze your phage, and then catalog your data in an international DNA sequence database. Deadline: The application deadline for this year has passed.

Students isolate novel bacteriophage from the environment and characterize those phage using current research techniques including electron microscopy and DNA analysis. The genomic DNA from some of ...

Day1: Phage Discovery & Genomics allows you to explore the hidden world that exists all around you. Isolate, characterize and name your newly discovered phage. Sequence the DNA of your phage and ...

This manuscript describes an important finding of the transcriptional control of a chimeric gene transfer agents (GTA) cluster in Bartonella by a processive anti-termination factor (BrrG). The ...

John McCafferty, Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease Additionally, because the protein would be bound to the bacteriophage with the inserted DNA, the product and ...

They looked closely at the endonuclease, an enzyme that serves as a DNA cutting tool. The endonuclease from one phage's ...

Scientists insert variable DNA sequences coding for their proteins of interest into plasmids that carry a phage coat protein gene, an antibiotic resistance gene, and a packaging signal. Then they ...

Complementary discoveries have the potential to enhance treatment options for antibiotic-resistant infections. Researchers at ...