#bacteriophages — Public Fediverse posts
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#Anthropic’s biolab made a discovery it’s comparing to #Crispr
Over 21hr, nearly 950 #Claude #AIagents worked through 210M tokens before one spotted an unusual repeating pattern in the dataset and flagged for human review. Further analysis and lab testing revealed “previously uncharacterized enzyme system found in #bacteriophages,” a type of #virus that infects #bacteria.
Anthropic said it is still working to understand what the enzyme system does.
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/999470/anthropic-biolab-claude-crispr
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19-Aug-2026
A viral 'loose cannon' enzyme helps phages shut down bacterial defenses
Scientists have found how #phages, #viruses that infect bacteria, orchestrate an explosion of protein modifications inside host cells that helps them evade the bacteria’s immune systemshttps://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1140693
#science #microbialEcology #phageTherapy #bacteriophages #proteins #enzymes -
Un #modèle d’ #IA a créé 16 #virus #bactériophages : une avancée #scientifique majeure qui relance le débat sur le risque des #armes #biologiques
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Un #modèle d’ #IA a créé 16 #virus #bactériophages : une avancée #scientifique majeure qui relance le débat sur le risque des #armes #biologiques
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A phage puts a new spin on bacterial flagella
Transposon-encoded TnpB proteins are RNA-guided nucleases that use a transposon-encoded guide RNA to cleave DNA target sequences, promoting…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Science #Bacteriophages #general #InfectiousDiseases #LifeSciences #MedicalMicrobiology #microbiology #Parasitology #Phagebiology #virology
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Temperate phages enhance bacterial host fitness via RNA-guided flagellar remodelling
Mata, J., Marguerat, S. & Bähler, J. Post-transcriptional control of gene expression: a genome-wide perspective. Trends Biochem. Sci.…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Science #Bacterialgenetics #bacteriology #Bacteriophages #general #InfectiousDiseases #LifeSciences #MedicalMicrobiology #microbiology #Parasitology #Viralgenetics #virology
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Bridging continuous and discrete evolution through a controllable, hypermutagenic phage-bacteria system
General methods All E. coli and phage strains created in this study are listed in Supplementary Table 1,…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Science #AppliedMicrobiology #Bacteriophages #DNASynthesis #general #InfectiousDiseases #LifeSciences #MedicalMicrobiology #microbiology #Molecularevolution #Parasitology #virology
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Translation-dependent degradation of cas12 mRNA triggered by an anti-CRISPR
Murtazalieva, K., Mu, A., Petrovskaya, A. & Finn, R. D. The growing repertoire of phage anti-defence systems. Trends…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Science #Bacteriophages #HumanitiesandSocialSciences #Microbialgenetics #microbiology #multidisciplinary
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#Bacteriophages infecting #Klebsiella show capsule specificity that strongly shapes host range. @rafalmostowy &co reveal diverse prophage-encoded receptor-binding enzymes, including esterases, that drive capsule tropism @PLOSBiology https://plos.io/48z4DdE
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Identification of a small #chemical molecule that actively inhibits #bacterial immune defenses, enabling #bacteriophages to successfully infect and destroy #bacteria that would otherwise resist #viral attack.
#Biochemistry #Microbiology #sflorg
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In the German science program Quarks, Bärbel Stecher, professor of #IntestinalMicrobiome, explains how #bacteriophages target specific bacteria and their relevance for #AntibioticResistance and the #GutMicrobiome. Watch now: http://go.tum.de/112324
📷A.Eckert
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#AI can now design functional #viruses - not the computer kind, either
Inject this synthetic #phage into #Ecoli and it kills better than the real thing
#Bacteriophages, are viruses that infect bacteria, have been widely studied since their discovery in the early 20th century. The end result of the AI portion of the project was a pool of 302 candidate #genomes, 285 of which were able to generate full genomes. Of those, 16 were found to inhibit growth of E. coli #bacteria.
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Big Picture Science for Sep. 29, 2025: Not Just a Phage
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We’re hurtling towards a post-antibiotic world, as the overuse of antibiotics has given rise to dangerous drug-resistant bacteria. Can we fight back using viruses as weapons? An obscure medical therapy uses certain viruses called bacteriophages to treat infection. For a century attempts to turn phage-therapy into a life-saving treatment have faltered, but today there’s renewed interest in this approach. Can we use phages to forestall the antibiotic crisis?Guests:
* Claas Kirchhelle – Medical historian at the University College, Dublin
* Tom Ireland – Journalist, editor of The Biologist and author of “The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage”
* Steffanie Strathdee – Associate Dean of Global Health Sciences at the University of California San Diego
* Tom Patterson – Professor of psychiatry at the University of California San DiegoOriginally aired August 12, 2024
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#Antibiotics #Bacteria #Bacteriophages #BigPictureScience #SETI #News #Podcast #Science
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Could animal poo help fight drug‑resistant infections? | @Reuters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m406j4coRzs
#news #NoShit #biology #disease #bacteriophages #feces #disease #infection #prevention #cures #treatments -
Phage display (Microbiology 🦠)
Phage display is a laboratory technique for the study of protein–protein, protein–peptide, and protein–DNA interactions that uses bacteriophages to connect proteins with the genetic information that encodes them. In this technique, a gene encoding a protein of interest is inserted into a phage coat protein gene, causing the phage to "di...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_display
#PhageDisplay #Microbiology #Bacteriophages #MolecularBiology #DisplayTechniques
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New publication: #Nematodes vector #bacteriophages in #compost and #soil. #hitchhiking #dispersal #soil
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2-Apr-2025
The first case of #phageTherapy for biliary tract infection caused by #superbugshttps://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1079259 #science #medicine #microbiology #bacteriophages
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How does the lysogenic-lytic cycle work in intestinal #bacteriophages? @dbikard &co show that hankyphage produces defective viral particles & identify RepCHP as master repressor of this #phage's lytic cycle #plosbiology https://plos.io/41Rr22S
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Fighting #bacteria with #viruses: Important step to treating #antibiotic-resistant infections.
https://phys.org/news/2025-03-bacteria-viruses-important-antibiotic-resistant.html
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Bacteria pass down their memories to fight viruses
https://www.earth.com/news/bacteria-pass-down-their-memories-to-fight-viruses/
#science #biology #microbiology #bacteria #genetics #viruses #bacteriophages #phages #crispr
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"A century-old treatment that uses viruses to attack bacteria was successfully used in 2024 to save the life of a Singapore General Hospital (SGH) patient who had exhausted all care options for an antibiotic-resistant infection.
This made her the first patient in South-east Asia to benefit from phage therapy"
#Bacteriophages #Health #Medicine #Singapore #Bacteria #PhageTherapy
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#BREX system's unique #DNA_recognition mechanism enhances #bacterial #antiviral defense.
#bacteriophages #methyltransferase
https://phys.org/news/2025-03-brex-unique-dna-recognition-mechanism.html
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New publication: Novel #bacteriophages targeting wheat #phyllosphere bacteria carry #DNAmodifications and single-strand breaks. #genomics #biodiversity
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"Knowing how more than one kind of phage can survive over time on a single bacterium could help in designing next-generation phage cocktails," said Nora Pyenson, PhD. "For example, each phage species might attack the bacterium in a different part of its lifecycle, enabling the whole population to be killed before resistance to the treatment evolves."
#bacteriophages #bacteria #microbiology #virus #virology #CellBiology #biology #naure #science #research
https://www.labroots.com/trending/microbiology/28227/researchers-reveal-bacterium-play-host-phages
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@mattotcha #Bacteriophages give me hope.
Hope we have a chance to overcome #AntibioticResistance
It’s not a panacea, but it brigs hope.
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Operations Manager
ePhective
See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/ephective-27778-operations-manager/?feed_id=88491
#bacterial_and_viral_infection #bacterial_host_interaction #bacteriophages #lab_management #operations #ScienceJobs #hiring #research
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Phage Scientist
ePhective
ePhective (San Francisco), a newly founded phage therapy company started by Joe Bondy-Denomy & Zemer Gitai, is looking for 2 Phage Scientists.
See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/ephective-27778-phage-scientist/?feed_id=87350
#bacterial_and_viral_infection #bacterial_pathogenesis #bacterial_host_interaction #bacteriology #bacteriophages #ScienceJobs #hiring #resea...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/ephective-27778-phage-scientist/?feed_id=87350