How to Use bacteriophage in a Sentence

bacteriophage

noun

• This virus is a bacteriophage or phage, a group of viruses that kill bacteria.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2019
• The models were based on the spread of bacteriophage aerosols used as a surrogate to estimate the airborne spread of the coronavirus.
  — Angela Dewan, CNN, 15 Apr. 2021
• An emerging option is known as phage therapy, which relies on a type of virus known as a bacteriophage.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Oct. 2023
• The method taps bacteriophages, a type of virus that infects and kills bacteria, to combat infections.
  — Popular Science, 12 Oct. 2023
• Smith was working on what some call the deadliest beings on Earth, bacteriophages.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 3 Oct. 2018
• Available on YouTube, the over two-minute video shows the bacteriophage at the 0:27 time mark infecting an unidentified bacterium.
  — Miriam Fauzia, USA TODAY, 27 July 2021
• An autopsy later showed that the phage therapy had been working: the bacteriophages had reached their targets and were doing what they were supposed to do.
  — Diane Shader Smith, STAT, 13 Nov. 2019
• Using a technique called phage display, each fragment was inserted into a bacteriophage, a type of virus that sticks to bacteria.
  — Pam Belluck, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2019
• Students in the program learn to isolate and characterize bacteriophages, annotate the phage genomes, and then submit the sequences to a national database.
  — Zahra Ahmad, Science | AAAS, 12 July 2017
• When Church and his colleagues replaced all 321 instances of one redundant codon with another in E. coli, the bacteria became resistant to the bacteriophage T7 virus.
  — Sharon Begley, STAT, 1 May 2018
• But with the discovery of antibiotics, bacteriophage research became largely forgotten, at least in the West.
  — WIRED, 27 Sep. 2022
• The researchers, in the U.S. and the United Kingdom, saved the patient with the help of bacteria-destroying viruses known as bacteriophages that occur naturally and are the most populous organisms on the planet.
  — Brianna Abbott, WSJ, 8 May 2019
• After word got out that Strathdee and her husband’s doctors had managed to save his life with a bacteriophage — literally, a bacteria-eater — her inbox filled with pleas for a repeat performance.
  — Eric Boodman, STAT, 21 June 2018
• Later that year, the team built another cog in the wheel of biological computing: the ability to send arbitrary messages between cells, again with help from a bacteriophage called M13.
  — Anil Ananthaswamy, Discover Magazine, 28 Aug. 2014
• Each bacteriophage displayed a specific fragment on its surface like a billboard.
  — Pam Belluck, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2019
• The treatment, called phage therapy, uses bacteriophages, which are tiny viruses that appear to have an uncanny ability to destroy some of the most lethal strains of drug-resistant bacteria.
  — Alexandra Sifferlin, Time, 18 Dec. 2017
• Necessary Scientists often turn to bacteria and the bacteriophage viruses that prey on them to learn about coevolution.
  — Quanta Magazine, 6 Jan. 2020
• Meet the phages Viruses that specialize in infecting bacteria are often called bacteriophages, or simply phages.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 18 July 2018
• Scientists stumbled upon them more than a half-century ago while hunting for another type of murderous microbe called a bacteriophage, or phage, a virus that can infect and kill bacteria.
  — Star Tribune, 27 Aug. 2020
• Scientists douse fruits and vegetables in a solution containing good bugs, like bacteriophages, that kills the bad bugs, like salmonella or listeria.
  — Rebecca Huval, WIRED, 7 Mar. 2018
• More importantly, the bacteriophages didn’t cause any of the common side-effects that antibiotics cause, like a weakened immune system or gastrointestinal problems.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 11 June 2018
• Angela Belchersuccessfully transformed the M13 bacteriophage, a virus harmless to humans, into the cathode and anode of a lithium-ion battery.
  — Jeremy Jacquot, Discover Magazine, 26 Aug. 2010
• These resemble the business end of bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 July 2019
• When that bacteriophage infects another host, the bit of bacterial DNA gets incorporated into the new host’s genome in a process called specialized transduction.
  — Quanta Magazine, 16 Oct. 2018
• Some scientists see promise in a treatment called bacteriophage therapy.
  — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 14 Apr. 2023
• Why not try infecting her husband with bacteria-hunting viruses called bacteriophages?
  — Paul Sisson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 Apr. 2017
• After a long career in microbiology, 80-year-old Carl Merrill recently came out of retirement to pursue another germ-killing weapon: a family of germ-killing viruses known as bacteriophages.
  — NBC News, 20 Oct. 2017
• But to support that statement, Live Water links to a Wikipedia page about phage therapy, which uses viruses (not bacteria) to combat bacterial infections (phage or bacteriophage are terms for viruses that infect bacteria).
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 3 Jan. 2018
• Traditional antibiotics kill broadly, so the group enlisted UCSD colleagues who study therapeutic uses of bacteriophages, or phages.
  — Eva Frederick, Science | AAAS, 13 Nov. 2019
• Nature has also offered a potential solution: bacteriophage, viruses that naturally destroy bacteria.
  — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 31 July 2023

Last Updated: 15 Oct 2024