Biologists discover how viruses hijack cell's machinery
Thursday, January 12, 2017 - 16:41
in Biology & Nature
Biologists 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.