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This may sound like a good idea but when you mix Texas A & M with bacteria and virus's it is warfare.
A “medicine that grows” is how the phage concept was described by Dr. Ryland Young, a professor of biochemistry and biophysics who was instrumental in establishing the center. “Phage is a word that simply means viruses that grow on bacteria,” Young said. “They are harmless to humans, harmless to animals, harmless to plants. The only things they attack are bacteria. And every kind of bacteria that are involved in the disease process has bacteria phages that will attack them. So if you are a bacterial cell, your enemy is the bacterial virus.”
Phages are not new to science. They were first described in 1915, before what Young called “modern biology.” Years after the phage discovery, scien-tists began exploring molecular biology and the intricacies of DNA. What researchers now know is that the phage, or bacte-rial virus, encounters a bacterial cell, absorbs to it, injects its DNA into it and “typically 30 minutes later, the bacteria cell explodes,” Young explained. Several hundred new virus particles then continue on to eliminate other targeted bacterial cells, if any. So, almost 100 years after their discovery, scientists can iso-late bacteria phages, sequence their DNA and engineer them to be more effective against certain types of bacteria, he said.
“They are relatively cheap to produce,” Young said. “All you need to grow them is a culture of the bacteria that you want to kill. You throw one bacterial phage particle in there, come back in a few hours and you have trillions of the bacteria phages, and the bacteria cells.
From the trenches,
Celeste
A “medicine that grows” is how the phage concept was described by Dr. Ryland Young, a professor of biochemistry and biophysics who was instrumental in establishing the center. “Phage is a word that simply means viruses that grow on bacteria,” Young said. “They are harmless to humans, harmless to animals, harmless to plants. The only things they attack are bacteria. And every kind of bacteria that are involved in the disease process has bacteria phages that will attack them. So if you are a bacterial cell, your enemy is the bacterial virus.”
Phages are not new to science. They were first described in 1915, before what Young called “modern biology.” Years after the phage discovery, scien-tists began exploring molecular biology and the intricacies of DNA. What researchers now know is that the phage, or bacte-rial virus, encounters a bacterial cell, absorbs to it, injects its DNA into it and “typically 30 minutes later, the bacteria cell explodes,” Young explained. Several hundred new virus particles then continue on to eliminate other targeted bacterial cells, if any. So, almost 100 years after their discovery, scientists can iso-late bacteria phages, sequence their DNA and engineer them to be more effective against certain types of bacteria, he said.
“They are relatively cheap to produce,” Young said. “All you need to grow them is a culture of the bacteria that you want to kill. You throw one bacterial phage particle in there, come back in a few hours and you have trillions of the bacteria phages, and the bacteria cells.
From the trenches,
Celeste
