phages

Lytic phages may have genomes of any type of nucleic acid; they transfer between cells by release of infective particles.

The normal versions of Dr Turner's phages are able to parasitise four types of bacteria.

Classification of the isolated phages was done with the methods of restriction fragment analysis of phage genome and host range analysis.

Various of phage in the corresponding Host cells performed characteristics of its own based on the difference between phages.

Now the group is getting phages to grow a positive counter-electrode that will stick to the other side of the electrolyte.

Some DNA h pages, called TEMPERATE PHAGES, may become integrated into the host DNA and are replicated when it replicates .

The viral DNA is injected through the tail into the host cell, where it directs the production of progeny phages.

With the broadest host strain as an indicator, phages were detected in wines after malolactic fermentation.

When cultures are grown without phages or under aseptic conditions (starters), they lose their phage resistance.

There is a renaissance of interest in the antimicrobial potential of phages as more pathogens become multiply antibiotic resistant.

It is the phages' ability to channel through bacterial cell membranes that boosts antibiotic effectiveness.

In genetic engineering, multiple identical copies of a gene are produced in cloning vectors, such as plasmids and phages . See gene cloning.

Here, we briefly review the diversity of cold-active phages in marine and freshwater lakes.

This is, however, the first time that phages have been proposed as a way of decontaminating land.

Phages (as they are known for short) are viruses that consume and kill bacteria.

These bacteria soon burst open, spilling out enzymes and new phages.

It is a useful method to utilize phages in selective isolation of rare actinomyces.

The sensitivity of bacteria to phages was very different, depending on the strain.

Neither are phages retroviruses.

Morphology of 8 strains of phages of Bacillus thuringiensis was examined with electronic microscopy.

Last year Lu cofounded Novophage (now called Ascendia Biotechnology) to develop commercial applications for the phages.