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Scientists are often fighting the losing battle against antibiotic-resistant bacteria, with every new antibiotic treatment outwitted by the bacteria’s uncanny ability to adapt to whatever adversity comes their way. Although bacteria’s evasive strategies may have outwitted scientists in the last century, their strategies still fall prey to the nature’s billion-year old bacteria-killing virus known as bacteriophages.
According to a recent PLOS One article, bacteriophages have long evolved a way to kill bacteria for good, specifically by targeting an essential and evolutionarily conserved component of any bacteria: the bacteria’s cell wall
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