The Phage Genomics Lab courses ,sponsored by the HHMI Science Education Alliance, offers introductory biology students an authentic research experience. Students isolate novel bacteriophage from the ...

evaluating phage diversity in the environment, visualizing their phage via electron microscopy, and extracting phage DNA. Students even get to name their phage. Between semesters, the purified DNA ...

phage therapy is once again sparking interest among physicians and scientists—although it remains complex in practice because of the great diversity and specificity of phages. Against this ...