UNC Greensboro is welcoming a Nobel Prize winner to its campus on Wednesday, March 19. George Smith, Ph.D., won the prize for ...

While Smith and his colleagues’ peptide libraries demonstrated the potential of phage display, the sequences were randomly generated. Scientists did not have control over the amino acid frequencies, ...

Scientists insert variable DNA sequences coding for their proteins of interest into plasmids that carry a phage coat protein gene, an antibiotic resistance gene, and a packaging signal. Then they ...

In this issue, Gishizky and coworkers describe yet another use for phage display—a method for mapping protein–protein interactions that is faster than two-hybrid systems and that allows the ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Phage Wars Phage Wars is a game that simulates viruses competing over host cells. Each virus starts contained to a single cell. The player virus can ...

Their potential as antibacterial agents was appreciated almost immediately, with the first 'phage therapy' trials predating Fleming's discovery of penicillin by approximately a decade. In this ...