Taking one for the team: How bacteria self-destruct to fight viral infections
Friday, January 10, 2020 - 11:00
in Health & Medicine
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have discovered how a new immune system works to protect bacteria from bacteriophages (phages), viruses that specifically infect bacteria. This new system is unusual in that it works by abortive infection—the infected bacterial cell self-destructs to keep the infection from spreading to other cells.