Previous research had shown that the lambda phage introduced its own genetic information into that of its host, inserting it at a specific site in the host genome.

From 1976 to 1986, she directed the Plasmid Reference Center at Stanford -- a repository of genetic information about phage genes. She retired in 1985. Esther Miriam Zimmer was born to a poor ...

Antibiotic resistance could be overcome if phage therapies were produced more efficiently, for example, through the use of recombitrons. genprowebdirectory Facebook Linkedin RSS Twitter Youtube ...

Sometimes the lambda phage cooperates with others. Sometimes it competes. "Instead of just the cell making a decision, we found the phage DNAs themselves also make decisions," Zeng said.

Esther Miriam Zimmer Lederberg (1922 – 2006) was an American microbiologist, who discovered bacterial virus Lambda phage and the bacterial fertility factor F (F plasmid). Like many woman ...