Sentences with phrase «modify phage»

This enables scientists to genetically modify phage genomes systematically, provide them with additional functionality, and finally reactivate them in a bacterial «surrogate» — a cell - wall deficient Listeria cell, or L - form.

Isolating the modified phage was therefore often like searching for a needle in a haystack.

Not exact matches

With the use of careful phage isolation procedures and environmental samples from various locations, such as alternative media usage and modified plaque - picking methods, we isolated potentially novel phages.