Biologists discover how viruses hijack cell's machinery
Thursday, January 12, 2017 - 14:11
in Biology & Nature
Biologists at UC San Diego have documented for the first time how very large viruses reprogram the cellular machinery of bacteria during infection to more closely resemble an animal or human cell—a process that allows these alien invaders to trick cells into producing hundreds of new viruses, which eventually explode from and kill the cells they infect.