Sentences with phrase «what phage»
That changed what the phage did: it was now more likely to slip its genome into the bacteria, rather than kill it.
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«We're taking advantage of what phage have «learned» during this period for us to identify new antibiotic targets that we believe will escape the problem of resistance found for other antibiotics.»
The company currently uses a lab test that takes a minimum of eight hours, and sometimes up to a day or two, to get a readout of what phage or phages will work best against a particular strain of bacteria.
Not exact matches
«You're taking the power of what evolution has done... to bind bacteria, and then we're just helping that out a little bit,» said Sam Nugen, a food and biosystems engineer who leads the team designing these phages at Cornell University.
«This is just the first in what will likely be numerous studies into the phage diversity of the urinary microbiome,» said Dr. Putonti.
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.
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.»
She looked at what they test and phage wasn't even one of the things.