A Most Bitter Enemy
by Mechas — Uncovering the diversity of bacterial defenses against their most abundant enemies.
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Global Phage-Assisted Salmonella Virulence
Noteworthy — Microbes cross environments, modulating communities and introducing genetic information that is, in addition, changed by phages. But how can these phage-mediated gene exchange events be uncovered?
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Retrons Resolved
by Mechas Zambrano — Just like solving a crossword puzzle or a sudoku, it is also greatly gratifying when apparently obscure scientific observations are figured out. There are many examples in microbiology of observations that, though they hint at some biological...
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TWiM 247: Therapy With Paleofeces and Phages
TWiM explores whether 'rewilding' is a way to get back our missing gut microbes, and failure of bacteriophage therapy due to the production of neutralizing antibodies.
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Talmudic Questions #118 and #119
by Nicholas Shikuma and Oded Beja — #118: Are there bacteriophages known to infect eukaryotic cells? and #119: Are there any phages known to attack mitochondria or chloroplasts?
