• Now That's Us­ing Your Head!

    by Merry Youle — Some­thing bizarre can be seen in TEMs of a Caulobac­ter cres­cen­tus phage, φCbK. This was first re­ported in a pa­per pub­lished back in 1972 (see the im­age to the right). In most re­spects, φCbK is your typ­i­cal ho-hum siphovirus with an elon­gated head (60 nm di­am­e­ter, 200 nm long) sport­ing…

  • A Fas­tid­i­ous Bac­te­rio­phage

    by Michael Yarmolin­sky — Pa­trons of up­scale seafood restau­rants are given the op­por­tu­nity to see that the un­for­tu­nate crea­tures des­tined for the lob­ster pot are wav­ing their an­ten­nae about. Savvy cus­tomers at down­scale seafood mar­kets eval­u­ate ques­tion­able claims of fresh­ness by smell. A fas­tid­i­ous bac­te­rio­phage would wel­come...