Figure 2: Depiction of the stages of the bacteriophage lytic cycle. Credit: Technology Networks ... to infect and destroy bacteria and have been successfully used to treat life-threatening infection, ...
A bacteriophage is a type of virus that infects bacteria. In fact, the word "bacteriophage" literally means "bacteria eater," because bacteriophages destroy their host cells. All bacteriophages ...
We have new and exciting methods for figuring out how a bacteriophage attaches to a cell and recognizes a host, once it gets into the host, how it hijacks the host’s cellular machinery to replicate ...
Figure 2: Depiction of the stages of the bacteriophage lytic cycle. Credit: Technology Networks ... to infect and destroy bacteria and have been successfully used to treat life-threatening infection, ...