How Viruses Cooperate to Defeat CRISPR

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/how-viruses-cooperate-to-defeat-crispr/565469/

Phages attached to a bacterial cell

No single wolf can take down a bison on its own, but the pack has strength in numbers. A lone army ant is little threat, but an entire colony is a mighty destructive force. The natural world abounds with examples of predators that cooperate to take down their prey. And such teamwork also exists at a microscopic scale, among things that some scientists wouldn’t even classify as alive: viruses.

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Published by Dr. Prasanth Manohar, Ph.D.,

Early career researcher in the field of Microbiology. Phage biologist, Author, Editor and Scientific writer. Expertise is in bacteriophage biology & genetics, Phage Therapy, ssRNA phages, Phage lysis systems, Single-cell analysis, protein antibiotics, and Antibiotic Resistance.