Bacteriophages, or phages, viruses that selectively target and infect bacteria, have drawn growing attention for their potential use in a host of biotechnological processes to benefit humankind, from ...

In the lytic cycle (Figure 2), sometimes referred to as virulent infection, the infecting phage ultimately kill the host cell to produce many of their own progeny. Immediately following injection into ...

Thereafter, the phage utilizes the host's machinery to synthesize multiple copies of itself. If the infecting phage is virulent, the infection follows a lytic cycle, or for temperate phages, a ...

Depending on the life cycle of the phage, this lysis can occur either soon after the initiation of infection (lytic cycle) or instead following lengthy periods of delay (lysogenic cycle).

L ynn Cole was in a never-ending cycle of getting recurrent blood infections. And no antibiotic drugs managed to kill off her zombie-like bacteria. “It just got so frustrating over the years ...

In this hour, we'll talk about phage therapy--using bacteria-killing viruses to treat tough microbial infections. Plus, the first direct evidence of particle physics' elusive tau neutrino. Talk of ...

Phage Therapy for Diabetic Foot Infections. ... organisms are predators of bacteria that infect, replicate in, and kill bacterial targets as part of their life cycle.

While there is still a long road ahead, phage therapy is one of the few tested solutions for drug-resistant infections—and could some day be comparable, if not cheaper, to the cost of antibiotics.

The lysogenic cycle, or non-virulent infection, involves the virus assimilating its genome with the host cell’s genome to achieve replication without killing the host. Bacteriophage (phage) are ...