Is a bacteriophage living or non-living entity?
Phages, like other viruses, have a complex life cycle that causes them to be classified...
Exploring Phage T4: The Most Popular Virus of Microbes
Phages or Bacteriophages are viruses that mainly infect bacteria. They are highly specialized and have evolved over time to become the most...
Temperate and lysogenic infection: Are they the same?
Lysogenic cycle Lysogenic infection An infection that results in prophage genome replication but does not explicitly involve virion...
bacteriophage vs prophage: What is a difference?
The primary distinction between prophage and bacteriophage is that prophage is a viral genome that...
why a bacteriophage cannot infect a human
Can a bacteriophage infect a human cell? It’s an intriguing question that has scientists scratching their heads over the possibility...
Bacteriophages: Nature’s Solution to Drug-Resistant Bacteria
Bacteria are microorganisms that are present everywhere on Earth. They are essential for the proper functioning of many ecosystems and are...
Top 4 most used Phage Display Systems (The Phage blog)
The most often utilized bacteriophages in phage display are filamentous bacteriophages from E. coli...
Inoviridae (Filamentous phages): Bacteriophages with a unique replication cycle
Bacteriophage is a term used to describe viruses that infect bacteria and archaea. While most phages are ‘micro predators’ that...
Game Theory between Bacteriophages and Pathogens
Phage inserts DNA content into the bacteria.©Raphael Hans Lwesya Game theory is widely used to analyze economic and social behaviors....
What do Bacteriophage Diagrams Look Like? (Morphological classification of bacteriophages)
What do bacteriophages look like? In both academic and non-academic contexts around the world, a...
