date:Aug 24, 2018
a day (Analyst 2018, DOI: 10.1039/c8an00781k). Study coauthor Sam Nugen of Cornell presented the work during a talk in the Division of Agricultural and Food Chemistry at the American Chemical Society national meeting in Boston on Wednesday.
Found in great numbers all over our bodies, bacteriophage viruses are harmless to humans yet lethal to bacteria, Nugen said. Bacteriophages prey on bacteria by hijacking the bacterias internal machinery to express the phages own DNA and then forcing them to