Tag - bacteriophages

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Giant viruses build a cell nucleus surprisingly like our own

New technologies provide unprecedented view of virus’ ‘weird biology’—critical for future biomedical applications against bacterial infections Humans aren’t the only targets for viruses. Like us, bacteria become...

4 August, 2022

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Unknown virus discovered in humans

An international team based in Austria has unearthed a previously unknown type of virus in samples of human bodily fluids. The researchers were looking for viruses that infect bacteria, known as bacteriophages, with an...

20 November, 2019

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How viruses outsmart their host cells

Scientists decipher protein structure after more than fifty years of research Viruses depend on host cells for replication, but how does a virus induce its host to transcribe its own genetic information alongside that...

7 March, 2019

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