Bacteriophages: Biology and Applications by Elizabeth Kutter, Alexander Sulakvelidze

Bacteriophages: Biology and Applications



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ISBN: 0849313368, 9780849313363
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Publisher: CRC Press


Sep 27, 2013 - Bacteriophage Biology The word bacteriophage comes from the word bacteria and the Greek word phagein, which means "to devour" or "to eat." Bacteriophages are generally made of a shell of protein that contains DNA or RNA encoding a "genome" or . The tools used were quite simple because nature provided the design for this bacteriophage. Dec 6, 2007 - Reconstruction of evolutionary history of bacteriophages is a difficult problem because of fast sequence drift and lack of omnipresent genes in phage genomes. Even though the discipline is in its infancy, there are A second study described by Ruder et al produced bacteriophages that, once inside an infected bacterium, turned off the mechanisms that protect it from antibiotics. COGs are a sensible approach and they work fine. Nov 15, 1997 - However, there was generally little interaction between those who were so effectively using phage as tools to understand molecular biology and those still working on phage ecology and therapeutic applications. May 14, 2014 - I tend to think of viruses as biological “apps” — small software programs. A little more than two weeks and about $1,000. The TPs of viruses (not only present in as a potential tool in biology. Oct 24, 2013 - Bacteriophage biology and application. However, compared with France, much less phage research was published out of Russia, as its potential military applications to cure battlefield infections made the Soviets consider phage therapy as a state secret. Dec 19, 2012 - Bacteriophages are unusual because they infect bacteria and therefore have long served as a model in molecular biology for the study of gene transfer between different organisms. Chairman Mao Invented Traditional Chinese Medicine. Moreover, losses and recombinational exchanges of genes are In absence of golden standards we actually do not know what is the best way of deriving orthologous groups, and whether there is actually one way that works best for all applications. That achievement says a lot about how far the science of synthetic biology has come — and a lot about where Autodesk is going. May 5, 2014 - Autodesk is creating design tools and standards for synthetic biology and nanotech. This biotool could have multiple scientific applications in the field of molecular biology and biotechnology, through transient protein expression, or in the biomedical field, with applications in gene therapy, among others. About phage · Research · Blog · Publications · Staff. Posted on October 24, 2013 by jgill. Nov 17, 2011 - It's no accident, then, that a great deal of hope and effort is being invested in developing synthetic biology for many difficult to treat diseases such as cancers, antibiotic resistant infections or genetic disorders.