phage uses the bacterium's machinery and energy to produce more phage until the bacterium is destroyed and phage is released to invade surrounding bacteria. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A phage is a virus that only attacks other bacteria. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 19, 2006] Reference
And therefore it is called phagiphania, of phage, that is to say meat. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Legend, vol. 1] Reference
A phage is a virus that infects bacteria, and starting fall semester, an initial cohort of 24. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Here viruses that infect bacteria, called phage, are engineered such that each virus has on its surface coat a unique random peptide. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
To make cells levitate, the research team modified a combination of gold nanoparticles and engineered viral particles called "phage". From Wordnik.com. [Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine] Reference
The phage was the one who set that trap. From Wordnik.com. [In Darkness » Blog Archive » From the Archives: The Salesman] Reference
Giving my first public talk, at a phage meeting at. From Wordnik.com. [H. Robert Horvitz - Autobiography] Reference
Each phage eats just one specific type of bacteria. From Wordnik.com. [When Viruses Attack] Reference
In mixed-culture fermentations phage infections are reduced. From Wordnik.com. [1 Upgrading Traditional Biotechnological Processes] Reference
DNA from unirradiated phage lambda used to measure adsorption and. From Wordnik.com. [Werner Arber - Autobiography] Reference
At Caltech he soon teamed up with E.L. Ellis doing phage research. From Wordnik.com. [Max Delbrück - Biography] Reference
If this phage or virus is actually on your food, you will know about it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 19, 2006] Reference
All of the phage display screens that identify new functional sequences. From Wordnik.com. [Dawkins on the OOL] Reference
T4 is a bacteria-eating virus called a bacteriophage, or phage for short. From Wordnik.com. [When Viruses Attack] Reference
Yet another geo-phage about to infect yet another unsuspecting coastline. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference
A school, the so-called "phage group" informally grew up around Delbrück. From Wordnik.com. [Physiology or Medicine 1969 - Press Release] Reference
“It infects this factory like a phage infects a bacterium,” Koonin says. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
SOS induce phage, which can facilitate transfer of plasmids of other microbial elements. From Wordnik.com. [Browsing the Latest Issue of Scientific American] Reference
My stink bug is, apparently, polyphagous poly=many, phage=eat, and a threat to agriculture. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference
Most phages, at least in the surface ocean, belong to three phage groups of the tailed phages. From Wordnik.com. [Marine viruses] Reference
OpEdNews - Article: Choosing to let patients with superbug infections die rather than phage them?. From Wordnik.com. [Choosing to let patients with superbug infections die rather than phage them?] Reference
For example, there's a phage that is sprayed on tomatoes and peppers to kill a spotting bacteria. From Wordnik.com. [New methods aim to keep E. coli in beef lower all year] Reference
The mind, or program, or whatever you want to call the being of the phage listened to our networks. From Wordnik.com. [365 tomorrows » 2007 » February : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference
Based on these findings, he concludes that coral diseases might one day be limited by phage treatment. From Wordnik.com. [Global warming takes a toll on coral reefs] Reference
Try this: I replace an essential protein for phage binding to its bacterial host with random sequence. From Wordnik.com. [Behe: ID rescues Common Descent] Reference
Mike was an easy-going young investigator with a solid phage background and well established among the phage crowd. From Wordnik.com. [Hamilton O. Smith - Autobiography] Reference
One of the ways to do that, again, as you pointed out, is to actually spray a particular type of virus called a phage. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 19, 2006] Reference
I was also anxious to know how the restriction of phage growth and the adaptation of lambda to the new host strain worked. From Wordnik.com. [Werner Arber - Autobiography] Reference
Because overuse is rapidly rendering antibiotics ineffective, researchers are turning to phage viruses as possible replacements. From Wordnik.com. [When Viruses Attack] Reference
This is why, under the action of inducers, the immunity of the lysogenic bacteria to the superinfective homologous phage is lost. From Wordnik.com. [André Lwoff - Nobel Lecture] Reference
A famous phage experiment by Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase (1952) tracked the chemical components of phage as they entered bacteria. From Wordnik.com. [Molecular Biology] Reference
I formed the NAI Virus Focus Group to study viruses and phage in these environments and we continue to have workshops and field trips. From Wordnik.com. [Baruch S. Blumberg - Autobiography] Reference
Next, it will make copies of itself, eventually causing the E-coli to explode, launching hundreds of new phage particles into the area. From Wordnik.com. [When Viruses Attack] Reference
I remained in Professor Hayashi's laboratory as a postdoctoral fellow working on the morphogenesis of a phage, ØX174, until early 1969. From Wordnik.com. [Susumu Tonegawa - Autobiography] Reference
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