The microbial arms race, in which bacteria battle with each other, viruses, and other microorganisms for space and nutrients, has been ongoing for ages. There are viruses known as bacteriophages that ...

What if the Trojan horse had been pulled to pieces, revealing the ruse and fending off the invasion, just as it entered the gates of Troy? That's an apt description of a newly characterized bacterial ...

A single protein bolted to the inner membrane of a bacterial cell can shred a virus’s DNA before that genetic material ever reaches the interior. That is the central finding behind SNIPE, a newly ...