The term lysogenic refers to the ability of bacteriophages to assume a dormant state, referred to as a prophage, in the bacterial cell. Lysogeny is characterised by the integration of the viral DNA ...

Phage display is an analytical technique used to study protein-protein interactions and the relationship between a protein and the encoding DNA. Phage display begins by incorporating the protein of ...

Researchers at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School (NJMS) and the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics (CTBP) at Rice University in Houston, Texas, have ...

Chemists at Texas A&M University are taking a p[h]age from bacteria's playbook in order to beat viruses at their own game and develop new drugs to fight cancer and a host of other human diseases in ...

Antibiotics are widely used in clinical treatment and animal production as an effective means to combat microbial infections. Antimicrobial peptides, as potential alternatives to antibiotics, have ...

Researchers have mapped out what a commonly-used form of phage looks like, which will help design better uses in future. New insights into the structure of phages will enable researchers to develop ...

Recent advances in phage display for molecular evolution incorporate deep sequencing to enable greater library coverage. However, severe gaps and limitations associated with next generation sequencing ...

Determining functions of novel gene products identified in genome sequencing efforts has become an important scientific challenge. Identifying proteins that interact with novel gene products can help ...

Aga2-fusion protein binding to yeast cell by Aga1. Image provided by Invitrogen. Phage display systems, reviewed in a recent issue of The Scientist, 1 have proven enormously useful for the detection ...

Caltech’s Frances Arnold, who advanced a technique called directed evolution to shape the function of enzymes, has received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry today (October 3). She shares the honor with ...