The findings, published in the peer-reviewed Nature Microbiology journal, present a sophisticated mechanism in which viruses co-opt bacterial defence systems to regulate their behaviour.
A new study published in the journal Nature Microbiology by Monash University researchers indicates that chemosynthesis (growth utilising inorganic substances) supports bacteria in the deepest areas of the water without sunshine.
Researchers at Duke Health have reported that an immune response that likely evolved to help fight infections appears to be the mechanism that drives human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) into a latent state, lurking in cells only to erupt anew.