Sentences with phrase «phages break»

The reality, however, is that almost as soon as they divide and make baby bacteria, phages break them open, spilling their guts, and they start turning into carbon dioxide.
Some phages break out using an enzyme that digests the cell wall.

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Drugs that mimic phage proteins could similarly break down bacteria, Young says.
A phage, blue, blocks a complex cascade of cell - building signals to break down a bacterium «s wall.
«To solve this problem, we borrowed a tool from phages themselves: the enzymes these viruses use to break apart a phage - infected cell to release their progeny,» says Douglas Deutsch, a graduate student in the lab.
After the last coffee break Emmanuelle Charpentier (Umeå University, Sweden) entered the scene and shared her knowledge about how to use phages (viruses that target bacteria) for genome engineering via CRISPRs.
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