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  1. 19-Aug-2026
    A viral 'loose cannon' enzyme helps phages shut down bacterial defenses
    Scientists have found how #phages, #viruses that infect bacteria, orchestrate an explosion of protein modifications inside host cells that helps them evade the bacteria’s immune systems

    eurekalert.org/news-releases/1

    #science #microbialEcology #phageTherapy #bacteriophages #proteins #enzymes

  2. Biologists Discover Over 100,000 New Types of RNA Viruses sci.news/biology/new-rna-virus

    Expansion of the global RNA #virome reveals diverse clades of #bacteriophages cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8

    This allowed the researchers to reconstruct how the #viruses underwent diverse acclimation processes throughout their #evolution in order to adapt to different hosts. Some of the new viruses are suspected of infecting various pathogenic #microbes, thus opening up the possibility of using viruses to control them.