>>13054406You have a cople of options.
If you want to research phages professionally, you have to go to university. I dont know where you live, the uni system varies depending on location, but the path to take where i'm from would be the following. First a BSc in biology. Then, depending on weather you want to work with phage genetics, phages place in taxonomy or phages in medicine, you would need an MSc in either "molecular genetics, cellular and developmental biology" (where you specialise in phage genetics), "microbiology", or "immune and human biology". These would introduice you to the knowledge necesseary to understand phages, their place in the world, their uses and also the methodologyes necesseary to do research.
If you don't have the opportunity to do all that, you can download all the books you need, teach yourself or read up on how to read scientific articles, and how to do research. As for lab experience, a lot of the expensive lab stuff can be built, and a lot of lab stuff isn't particularly expensive. If you live in a populated are, you can also look up any biohackers that might be operating in your vicinity.
