Sentences with phrase «phages from»

Phage researchers» online stomping grounds More about phages from the American Society of Microbiology

Hilbert and her colleagues isolated phages from 50 chicken samples purchased from Austrian supermarkets, street markets and butchers.

They found that the phages from antibiotic - treated mice carried significantly higher numbers of bacterial drug - resistance genes than they would have carried by chance.

There was some variation in the abundance of phages from healthy bladders vs. those isolated from women with symptoms of urinary tract infections.

The investigators also found that phages from different women were clearly related.

For now, Adaptive Phage Therapeutics plans to use the AI system at its Maryland office to determine the best course of treatment for a patient, choose the right phage from its collection, and send the phage to the hospital.

That's because gut phage from mice treated with one drug carried high levels of genes that confer resistance to different drugs, which means that the phage could serve as backup when bacteria must find ways to withstand a variety of antibiotics.

What's more, phage from ampicillin - treated mice carried more genes that help bacteria fight off ampicillin and related penicillin - like drugs, while phage from ciprofloxacin - treated mice carried more genes that help them fight off ciprofloxacin and related drugs.

The researchers demonstrated this by isolating phage from either antibiotic - treated mice or untreated mice, then adding those phage to gut bacteria from untreated mice.

For example, when the researchers decoded the complete sequence of one extrachromosomal circular phage from a disease - causing Staphylococcus, they identified a number of genes that may help this strain evade a host's immune system and that could readily spread to other Staphylococcus bacteria.

Not exact matches

It's developing a machine - learning algorithm that uses data from the genomes of both phages and bacteria.

Patients in danger of dying from uncontrollable bacterial infections could find new allies: killer viruses known as phages.

The antibiotic, Epimerox, targets weaknesses in bacteria that have long been exploited by viruses that attack them, known as phage, and has even been shown to protect animals from fatal infection by Bacillus anthracis, the bacteria that causes anthrax.

Professor Mikael Skurnik from the University of Helsinki has studied bacteriophages and phage therapy for a long time.

The phages» DNA contained some of the genes from another bacteria's immune system.

They do their dirty work by infiltrating bacteria, including disease - causing germs, and destroying them from within: After latching onto bacteria, the phages bore inside and hijack the bacteria's genetic machinery, turning them into phage factories that eventually make so many copies that the cells burst, killing off the host.

A tiny phage attacks an E. coli cell in this false - color image from a transmission electron microscope.

Gut viruses called bacteriophage, or phage (red), harbor resistance genes that shield bacteria from antibiotics.

But Collins and Sheetal Modi, Ph.D., the lead author of the study and a postdoctoral fellow in Collins» laboratory and at the Wyss Institute, knew that phage were also abundant in the gut, and that they were adept at ferrying genes from one bacterium to another.

We assume that phages acquire resistance genes from already resistant bacteria and then transfer those genes to other bacteria,» says Hilbert.

The Phage, a 100 - plus - member «theme camp,» hosts nightly talks on topics ranging from stem cells to 3 - D modeling.

A new technique of direct binding of radioactive DNA was used to screen a complementary DNA expression library from the BJAB cell line in lambda gt11 phage to derive molecular cDNA clones representing a putative B lymphocyte - specific octamer binding protein.

The cDNA insert from this phage hybridized to messenger RNA found in B lymphocytes, but not in most other cells.

Peptide phage gathered from the MDSCs were expanded, enriched and then sequenced to identify predominant peptides.

Phages, shown here surrounding and attacking a bacterial cell, are part of a newly discovered type of immunity that protects mucus - covered human tissue from bacterial infection.

And even if there were any, for example due to a bacterium changing its surface structures to prevent the virus from attaching, the new technology makes it possible to develop a suitable phage against which a bacterium has not yet developed resistance.

Deep sequencing of the VHH phage libraries generated from a set of llamas, which received two different immunization protocols, showed that the new VHH and the previously described anti-HIV VHH J3 [26] were induced by immunization (Table 1).

«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.

Extrachromosomal DNA can include bacteria - infecting viruses, known as phages, and strands of self - replicating DNA, known as plasmids, often picked up from other bacteria.

If a yeast cells finds its way from the lung to the brain via a phage or other routes, «that's very bad news,» Bartlett says, «because once it gets into the central nervous system it's in heaven.

The CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) system was originally discovered by dairy industry researchers seeking to prevent phages, the viruses that infect bacteria, from ruining the cultures used to make cheese and yogurt.

Bacteria incorporate small bits of DNA from phages into their CRISPR region and use that information to fight off the phages by chewing up their DNA.

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.

Obtained as a Fab by selection against gp120 IIIB of an antibody phage display library prepared from bone marrow of a asymptomatic HIV - 1 seropositive donor.

Carl said that the day Tom woke up from his coma after phage therapy began was the happiest day in his career.

And the phage therapy has really been a miracle for me, and to, to say that it might mean that millions of people are cured from this in the future is really a privilege.

Human Antibodies From V - Gene Libraries Displayed on Phage», Journal of Molecular Biology, 222: 581 - 597, 1991.

By making transgenic, knock - in mice where the endogenous RNA is tagged with the stem loops of the MS2 phage, and bound to the fluorescent coat protein, we can see all these events of mRNA from birth to death in living tissues.

Also presented are possible alternative approaches to tackling infections, such as phages (viruses that kill bacteria) sourcing new antibiotic leads from oceans, soils and host - associated microbiomes in humans, komodo dragons and leafcutter ants.

So, the phage does have some antibacterial effects and it comes from a non-dairy culture.

The Life Foundation is a shadowy organization from Marvel's comics, best known in the «Lethal Protector» storyline — a storyline we know the film is using for inspiration — for kidnapping Venom and using the symbiote to create five symbiote soldiers of their own: Scream, Phage, Riot, Lasher, and Agony.