Sentences with phrase «bacterial viruses»

They believe that further basic knowledge on bacterial viruses biology will eventually lead to unexpected breakthroughs in the fight against antibiotic - resistant bacteria.

Inflammation in the gut helps bacterial viruses spread to other strains of bacteria and promotes their success, a new study in mice finds.

Using high - throughput DNA sequencing, the researchers located mutations in bacterial genes that resisted the toxicity of growth inhibitors produced by bacterial viruses.

Molecular biologists announced that, in just 2 weeks, they had assembled an artificial bacterial virus from its components.

As a matter of fact there appear to be all kinds of intermediates between the «normal» genetic structure of a bacterium and that of typical bacterial viruses.

You'll also be safer from contracting different bacterial viruses.

Young's research focuses on bacterial viruses, also known as bacteriophage or phage.

The age of genetic engineering began in the 1970s, when Paul Berg spliced DNA from a bacterial virus into a monkey virus and Herbert W. Boyer and Stanley N. Cohen created organisms in which introduced genes remained active for generations.

«Because bacteria and bacterial viruses have co-evolved over billions of years, we suspected the viruses might contain precisely the weapons necessary to fight the bacteria,» Prof. Qimron said.

«So we systematically screened for such proteins in the bacterial viruses for over two and a half years.»

The researchers are continuing their study of bacterial viruses in the hope of identifying compounds and processes that facilitate improved treatment of antibiotic - resistant bacteria using yet uncharacterized bacterial viruses» proteins.

Because this «good» strain contains genes known to fight off bacterial viruses and other potentially harmful microbes, the researchers suspect that it may actively ward off the «bad» strains that are associated with disease, thereby keeping skin healthy.

As a result, the CRISPR locus of the bacterial genome accumulates a chronological record of the bacterial viruses that it and its ancestors have survived.

They take massive numbers of protein bits, known as peptides, and attach each one to the shell of a bacterial virus.

It is the first time animal - like DNA has been found in a bacterial virus.

A bacterial virus called M13 was genetically engineered to control the arrangement of carbon nanotubes, improving solar - cell efficiency by nearly one - third.