Tag Archives: Bacteriophage
Fight or flight, bacterial edition: adapting your defense to suit your foe
Imagine you were surrounded by enemies, and had a choice of two defenses. You could send out a targeted laser to kill each bad guy, or instead, put in a bit more effort to form a clever disguise so that … Continue reading
Phage Hunt NZ Guest Post: A First Hand Experience with Phage Therapy, Post 2
A Bacteriophage protocol in this area appears to need a lot more work; ideally an in-vitro test of an environment sample with the newly produced bacteriophage before application, if such a thing were possible, and a phage cocktail of a much wider spectrum for any one bacterial species. Continue reading
Phage Hunt NZ Guest Post: A First Hand Experience with Phage Therapy, Post 1
“I now had a far more virulent unidentified infection and was antibiotic-dependant again, a return to a past I had hoped I had left for good.” Continue reading
Want to make a new species? Put a little pressure on it…
A fascinating event that can occur in evolution is speciation; mutations bringing about new species that are significantly different to their ancestor. But how does this happen, what causes it, and how can we watch it happen? Observing the processes … Continue reading
Posted in Experimental Evolution
Tagged allopatry, Bacteriophage, E. Coli, Escherichia coli, Evolution, λ, lambda, speciation, sympatry
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The first time I heard about bacteriophages.
I was in an Advanced Placement Biology class in Morgan Hill California and our teacher, the treasured, Mr. Hemeon (surfer, musician, general biology-aficionado and all-rounder) had encouraged us each to do science fair projects on something we found interesting. My … Continue reading
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Tagged Bacteriophage, Buoyancy, John Roth, Microbiology, Mr. Hemeon, science, Science Fair, science fiction
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Good bugs, the future of medicine –
Welcome to the first instalment of “This Microbial Life”. This is a blog that I have thought about for awhile but not had the impetus to actually start. I will be using it for a couple of different practical purposes. … Continue reading
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Tagged Bacteriophage, peak antibiotics, phage, Phage Therapy
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