New research from the University of Guelph will focus on determining if bacteriophages can replace antibiotics to reduce the incidence of Salmonella in poultry. “Those of us in academia are really ...

Boyd English is the first patient in Western Canada to have the pain in his hip treated with bacteriophages. That’s using viruses to kill bacteria. English broke his hip in 1973 and got a hip ...

Center, an empty capsid showing the double-layered architecture of Jyvaskylavirus ... plays critical physiological roles across all organisms and viruses (Brown et al 2011). Protein P30 of the ...

Founder@Hoxton VC. Bacteriophage. A bacteriophage is constituted of a proteic envelope (called capsid), containing its ... [+] nucleic acid (DNA or RNA), and a tail. The tail includes a collar ...

1 and Félix d’Herelle who confirmed the finding and coined the term bacteriophage in 1917 and have been much studied since. 2 They have a very simple structure (Figure 1). Their genetic material is ...