#bacteriophages

(out of character- I'm not a doctor nor do I study medicine or the human body. I'm just some guy whose sister is big into immunology, which is why I know anything in the first place. And if the reason you single out T cells on this blog is like, due to having an autoimmune disorder or something, I'm so sorry.)

i hate them bc they're corrupt chud cops

Borin, J. M. et al. Rapid bacteria–phage coevolution drives the emergence of multiscale networks. Science 382, 674–678 (2023). Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar  Kauffman, K. M. et al. Resolving the structure of phage–bacteria interactions in the context of natural diversity. Nat. Commun. 13, 372 (2022). Article  CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar  Vos, M., Birkett, P. J., Birch,…

OH EXCITING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope it goes well!!

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Viruses that infect bacteria, known as bacteriophages (phages), alternate between two life cycles: a lytic cycle, in which they infect a host cell, replicate and lyse the cell to release newly formed virions into the environment; and a lysogenic cycle, in which the phage genome integrates into the host DNA as a latent prophage. Some phages control this lysis–lysogeny switch using a peptide-based…