How to Use phage in a Sentence

phage

noun

• The challenge, of course, is which phages should be chosen to do the job?
  — Paul Sisson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 Apr. 2017
• The clear spots are areas where phage have killed the bacterium.
  — David A. Shaywitz, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2023
• Doctors and researchers made the bold decision to try out the phage.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 20 Mar. 2018
• When Jalasvuori added a phage called PRD1, that proportion fell to just 5% within 10 days.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2011
• Bacteria have plenty of ways to combat the viruses that plague them, called phages.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 5 Dec. 2018
• Now, an equivalent process could be done in a week using phage display.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 Oct. 2018
• The downside of such specificity is that a phage might only knock out the bacteria in one sick person.
  — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 31 July 2023
• This month, Bunevacz should finally be able to start his phage therapy.
  — Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2020
• Strathdee approached Schooley about giving phage a shot.
  — Alexandra Sifferlin, Time, 18 Dec. 2017
• The effort that is furthest along, however, relies on a phage enzyme called a lysin rather than on whole phages.
  — Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 26 May 2020
• In this model, the survival of the host determines the survival of the phage, so the phage has a vested interest in maintaining its host.
  — David Pride, Scientific American, 7 Dec. 2020
• Strathdee reached out to scientists publishing phage research at the time.
  — Popular Science, 12 Oct. 2023
• The team decided to test its hunch that the cluster of sequences represented a new phage defense.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 11 Nov. 2020
• This virus is a bacteriophage or phage, a group of viruses that kill bacteria.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2019
• The team discovered the retron normally keeps the toxin under wraps, but activates it in the presence of phage proteins.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 11 Nov. 2020
• Using genetic engineering, the researchers tweaked some of the phages to...
  — Brianna Abbott, WSJ, 8 May 2019
• Bono worked with a phage strain that infects Pseudomonas syringae, a bacterium that causes disease in plants.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2012
• When the bacterium hosting the phage begins to exhibit a lot of DNA damage, that would normally signal to the phage to break out and find a host with a longer life expectancy.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 8 Apr. 2022
• A posse of little guys called phages, which are actually viruses that infect bacteria and kill them.
  — Sarah Fallon, WIRED, 28 July 2016
• Once activated, the prophage cuts itself out of the bacterial genome, replicates and then packages its DNA into phages.
  — Quanta Magazine, 16 Oct. 2018
• Running phages through modern clinical testing has proved difficult in the past.
  — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 21 June 2018
• For more than a century researchers have tried to use phages as a treatment for bacterial infections.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 30 July 2023
• While researching last-resort options, Strathdee came across research on using phages.
  — Alexandra Sifferlin, Time, 21 June 2018
• In a new study by Garrett et al., a complete set of overlapping linear peptides on a phage display backbone was developed, which spanned the entire spike protein.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 13 May 2021
• The startup is working with bacteria-eating viruses called phages to isolate proteins that can make superbug-killing drugs.
  — Ari Altstedter, Bloomberg.com, 25 June 2018
• It’s not just bacterial switches that appear to be phage inventions.
  — Ivan Erill, The Conversation, 19 Oct. 2021
• Some phage therapy centers offer the treatment at free or reduced cost, however.
  — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 14 Apr. 2023
• The engineering left only a cassette containing the genes responsible for copying the phage genome.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 5 Feb. 2024
• This is a potential liability with phage therapy, because the bacteria could evolve to evade the phage completely.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 14 Feb. 2024
• These are former phages that have been domesticated by bacteria so they can be used to harm the bacteria's potential competition.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 June 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024