Source: SCIENCE ALERT, 5/4/21


In the world of microbial warfare, sometimes you have to change the very fabric of who you are. Viruses that infect bacteria – fittingly called bacteriophages - and their prey have been at war for eons, each side evolving more devilish tactics to infect or destroy each other. Eventually, some bacteriophages took this arms race to a new level by changing the way they code their DNA.

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