Decision-Making Process of Viruses Could Lead to New Antibiotic Treatments (IMAGE)

Texas A&M AgriLife Communications

Decision-Making Process of Viruses Could Lead to New Antibiotic Treatments

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The lambda phage prefers to destroy E. coli bacteria, which makes it a prime target for researchers. Dr. Lanying Zeng, left, and her graduate student Jimmy Trinh developed a four-color fluorescence reporter system to track it at the single-virus level.

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(Texas A&M AgriLife Research photo by Kathleen Phillips)

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