Are phages more effective than antibiotics?
Bacteriophage attacking the bacteria courtesy Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News In...
Which kind of lab is supposed to handle bacteriophages?
Bacteriophages are viruses that affect bacteria and not plants, humans,s or any other mammals; due to their specificity, it poses no harm...
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 sample done by scientists from Stanford...
Phage therapy (Bacteriophage therapy)
Soon after Alexander Fleming’s 1928 discovery of penicillin and the beginning of Western...
Sewage sample collection for bacteriophage isolation
Sewage sampling Make sure you have a permit to collect samples in a specific area before you begin. In some cases, the sampling...
Sewage sample processing for bacteriophage isolation
As we have discussed earlier bacteriophages are present in the environment (Read about sewage sample collection here), Sewage is one of the...
Bacteriophage enumeration (plaque assay)
Principle of Phage Plaque Assay When a suspension of an infective phage (e.g. T4 phage) is spread...
