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Episode 0: What is a phage? - The Biology Behind The (Not-so-quite) Living Medicine

24 min · 19 de feb de 2026
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The very first episode in a coming series on the history of phage therapy and research. To make sure all future listeners are on an equal footing, I thought it was a good idea to introduce the very basics of bacteriophage biology. Give this a listen not only for a quick biology crash course but for a fun bit of etymology and an extremely forced IKEA metaphor! Stay tuned for the future episodes in which we will get to grips with the history side of things!

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