Abstract. Phages—viruses that infect bacteria—have evolved over billions of years to overcome bacterial defenses. Temperate phage, upon infection, can “choose”
    • notfromhere@lemmy.ml
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      10 months ago

      I heard somewhere that while USA was researching antibiotics, USSR was researching phages to do the same thing… My wild ass guess is we sabotaged their efforts somewhere along the way like we tend to do.