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SUBMITTER: Hess KL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6971447 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hess Krystina L KL Jewell Christopher M CM
Bioengineering & translational medicine 20190918 1
Bacteriophages, or phages, are viruses that specifically infect bacteria and coopt the cellular machinery to create more phage proteins, eventually resulting in the release of new phage particles. Phages are heavily utilized in bioengineering for applications ranging from tissue engineering scaffolds to immune signal delivery. Of specific interest to vaccines and immunotherapies, phages have demonstrated an ability to activate both the innate and adaptive immune systems. The genome of these vira ...[more]