Great job overall! I know you said that you concluded that your phage lyses quickly based on comparing it to the control, but out of curiosity, are there any other experiments that you could perform to confirm this? That is a super cool finding in general!! 🙂
From what I’ve found from my research, this was really the best way to tell how quickly a phage lyses. It provides a good enviorment for the phage and a good visual for us.
Great job! In your opinion what are the impacts of further research? Why is it important to the bigger picture that inspired this research in the first place?
It is important as bacteria become increasingly more resistant to antibiotics. If someone in the future is conducting research and they need a phage close to ours, then it is good to have it in the database. Phage research takes a lot of time and recourses, so it is beneficial in further research to isolate as many phage as possible (because the binding proteins are so specific).
As bacteria grow increasingly more resistant to antibiotics, it is important to turn to phage therapy. It is important to keep all of the phage in the database so that if someone is conducting research in the future, they could possibly use the information from our phage (phages have very specific binding proteins so if they are looking for a phage to attack a very specific bacteria and ours is similar then it is beneficial to have the information). Phage therapy is also very expensive and time consuming, so this is why we try to document every phage that is isolated.
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Great job overall! I know you said that you concluded that your phage lyses quickly based on comparing it to the control, but out of curiosity, are there any other experiments that you could perform to confirm this? That is a super cool finding in general!! 🙂
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From what I’ve found from my research, this was really the best way to tell how quickly a phage lyses. It provides a good enviorment for the phage and a good visual for us.
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Do you think antibiotics was the reasoning behind why your experiment went the way it did?
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We did not use any antibiotics in our experiment, but we assume that our gels did not run correctly due to the mixing process.
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Great job! In your opinion what are the impacts of further research? Why is it important to the bigger picture that inspired this research in the first place?
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It is important as bacteria become increasingly more resistant to antibiotics. If someone in the future is conducting research and they need a phage close to ours, then it is good to have it in the database. Phage research takes a lot of time and recourses, so it is beneficial in further research to isolate as many phage as possible (because the binding proteins are so specific).
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As bacteria grow increasingly more resistant to antibiotics, it is important to turn to phage therapy. It is important to keep all of the phage in the database so that if someone is conducting research in the future, they could possibly use the information from our phage (phages have very specific binding proteins so if they are looking for a phage to attack a very specific bacteria and ours is similar then it is beneficial to have the information). Phage therapy is also very expensive and time consuming, so this is why we try to document every phage that is isolated.
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