#Bacteriophage

Author: Cassie Martin / Source: Science News Unusual virus is valuable tool — Viruses, which cannot reproduce on their own, infect cells and usurp their genetic machinery for use in making new viruses…. But just how viruses use the cell machinery is unknown.… Some answers may come from work with

Author: Allie Wilkinson / Source: Science News The Perfect Predator Steffanie Strathdee and Thomas Patterson Hachette Books, $28 Epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee and her husband, Thomas Patterson, went to Egypt in 2015 expecting to come home with some photos and souvenirs. Instead, Patterson

Author: Laurel Hamers / Source: Science News Since long before it gained fame as a precise gene-editing tool, CRISPR has had another job defending bacteria against viral invaders. And it’s far from alone. Ten sets of bacterial genes have similar, newly discovered defense roles, researchers report