Gladstone Investigator Sukrit Silas (IMAGE)

Gladstone Institutes

Gladstone Investigator Sukrit Silas

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Sukrit Silas and his colleagues at Gladstone Institutes and UC San Francisco discovered that a well-known defense system in some bacteria can kill the cell as a last resort if viruses try to thwart it.

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Michael Short/Gladstone Institutes

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