Sentences with phrase «phage research»

He conducted phage research until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

But the tremendous progress in phage research of the past 10 years and the urgency to find alternatives to antibiotics have made physicians more willing to look into phages, he says.

Not exact matches

«This suggests that phage may contribute to urinary health and is an exciting new avenue for future research,» said Dr. Putonti.

In the study, the phage, called «CR5,» showed high antimicrobial activity against the bacterium, Cronobacter sakazakii, as well as against several other species of Cronobacter, which can also cause dangerous illness, said coauthor Sangryeol Ryu, professor in the Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Korea.

Research focused on the utilisation of viruses that infect and kill bacteria, known as bacteriophages or phages, in preventing infectious diseases has gained new traction after bacterial resistance to antibiotics has become a global problem.

Under a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement — or CRADA — with USDA, the Baltimore - based company Intralytix is supplying the phages for the trials.

USDAs new research on phages to disinfect fruits and vegetables already shows great promise, Leverentz says.

Still, since then, phage therapy research has only puttered along on a small scale.

So, Britta Leverentz and William Conway of the Agricultural Research Services Produce Quality and Safety Laboratory in Beltsville, Md., have started exploring the idea of spraying fresh - cut produce with phages.

Another student who was using phage - display technology to identify new molecular markers in ovarian cancer attended a clinic in gynecologic oncology once a week throughout her dissertation research.

But the discovery of penicillin and other antibiotics eclipsed phage treatments in the West, although research continued in the Soviet Union.

Phil Ross: There was a novel way back, written by Sinclair Lewis, I think Arrowsmith, where — this is in the 1920s before antibiotics were invented — where his scientist hero tries to use phages to... as a way of killing up bacteria to save people's lives, and that was an actual research project, which has come back now that bacteria are in many cases immune to antibiotics.

Nevertheless, in this research two limitations were observed in the use of orally administered bacteriophages: the reduced stability of the phages in extremely acid environments, such as the stomach, and short residence time in the intestinal tract.

Their activity outside the chromosomes has been poorly studied; most research has focused on phages integrated into bacterial chromosomes.

«So far, no one has looked across a variety of strains of bacteria, as we have done with Staphylococcus aureus, to find these extrachromosomal phages that have potential to play an important role in disease,» says Bryan Utter a postdoc in the lab and the first author of the research published June 25 in PLoS ONE.

The success of this study may provide the foundation for an improved program for high school students to foster their interest in research and gain invaluable experiences outside of the classroom while providing bacteriophages that can serve as the base chassis of synthetically engineered phages for diagnosis and treatment of MDR pathogens.

In research published in the Schizophrenia Bulletin, scientists at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Stanley Research Program at Sheppard Pratt Health System, also found a viral form of Lactobacillus, the phiadh phage, which infects bacteria and alters their replication, was significantly higher in individuals with schizoresearch published in the Schizophrenia Bulletin, scientists at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Stanley Research Program at Sheppard Pratt Health System, also found a viral form of Lactobacillus, the phiadh phage, which infects bacteria and alters their replication, was significantly higher in individuals with schizoResearch Program at Sheppard Pratt Health System, also found a viral form of Lactobacillus, the phiadh phage, which infects bacteria and alters their replication, was significantly higher in individuals with schizophrenia.

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

Dr. Susan Golden, distinguished professor in the division of biological sciences, molecular biology section at the University of California San Diego, wrote in a support letter, «The fundamental research carried out by Ry's lab over the years underpins so much of modern phage biology that it's difficult to imagine what the state of the field would be in his absence — undoubtedly poorer and perhaps non-existent — as he persevered during years and even decades when phage biology was viewed by many as passe and only a few labs carried on.»

Ana was part of a research team that searched through the waters of Lake Victoria in Kenya to find Vibrio cholerae phages that could be used to treat cholera.

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