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Counting phages: Serial dilution technique

February 5, 2023

Bacteriophage serial dilution is a reliable and widely used laboratory technique that enables scientists to accurately determine the concentration of bacteriophages (phages) in a…

Techniques to evaluate bacteriophage killing

January 30, 2023

Bacteriophages are viruses that are particularly reliant on their bacterial hosts’ metabolic activity to copy their genetic material and produce the proteins necessary for…

Scanning electron microscopy showing bacteriophages on the surface of bacteria

Phage Visualization Under Microscope: The Types, Techniques, and Importance

January 27, 2023

Bacteriophage research has seen a resurgence in recent years due to its potential for treating antibiotic-resistant bacteria. One of the critical ways to study…

Research: Antibiotics Can Alter the Infectivity of Bacteriophages

January 23, 2023

Antibiotics are drugs that help fight bacterial infections. Recently, scientists have discovered that these drugs can also affect the way that viruses, called bacteriophages…

The best way to Isolate bacteriophage DNA

January 19, 2023

As someone who has conducted bacteriophage research, I understand how common it is to encounter host DNA contamination when isolating a phage genome. This…

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Is a bacteriophage living or non-living entity?

January 7, 2023

Phages, like other viruses, have a complex life cycle that causes them to be classified as non-living, despite the fact that they exhibit some of the…

The Lytic and Lysogenic Cycles of the Bacteriophage

January 7, 2023

A virus is a microscopic, intracellular parasitic organism. It infects the host cell and uses its chemical machinery to make its own proteins and…

virovore-Halteria, the virus eating protist

Halteria: The first known virus-eating organisms

January 4, 2023

In the microscopic world, some bacteria have been observed to feed on other bacteria, and viruses have been observed to infect bacteria. But for…

Exploring Phage T4: The Most Popular Virus of Microbes

December 30, 2022

Phages or Bacteriophages are viruses that mainly infect bacteria. They are highly specialized and have evolved over time to become the most abundant biological…

Bacteriophages: The microscopic enemy of the dairy industry

December 21, 2022

The majority of people relate viruses with diseases that affect plants and animals only, what we don’t know is that being the smallest living…