They treated the mice with either phage P1, phage P2, or a combination of the two, and all injected at various times following ST258 infection.

In this case, biologists refer to P2 as a “helper” virus, because the satellite P4 needs P2’s genetic material to replicate and spread. Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria.

They treated the mice with either phage P1, phage P2, or a combination of the two, all injected at different times following ST258 infection.

In 1973, researchers studying bacteriophage P2, a virus that infects the gut bacterium Escherichia coli, found that this infection sometimes led to two different types of viruses emerging from the ...

Phage therapy might sound new, but it has been used for 100 years. However, the treatment isn’t well known. More research is needed on bacteriophages. This therapy for disease-causing bacteria ...

They treated the mice with either phage P1, phage P2, or a combination of the two, all injected at different times following ST258 infection.

Phage therapy has been around for more than 100 years, but with the advent of antibiotics and a possible influence of an unfavorable review published in the Journal of the American Medical ...

Phage therapy was tried extensively in the West in the 1920s and 1930s. Despite desperate clinical need, it did not work very well, and was largely abandoned before penicillin became available.

Calvin’s biology department offers a special research program for a select group of first-year students. In this two-semester program, you’ll gather specimens and isolate a unique bacterial virus, ...