Viral Infections Blur the Line Between Bacteria & Complex Life Like Plants & Animals

Using extreme time-lapse microscopy, scientists watched a virus take over a bacteria to create a cell that looked and functioned more like a plant or animal cell. True story. In a study published in Science, researchers from the Division of Biological Sciences and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego, as well as the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California, San Fransisco, took a closer look at how microbes replicate themselves by hijacking the cell of another microbe. While considered standard operating procedure... more

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