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Tuesday 22 October 2024

Unexpected beauty, major antimicrobial power boost as phages form into surprising flower shapes

Researchers who work with bacteriophages -- viruses that eat bacteria -- had a pleasant and potentially very important surprise after treating samples to view under an electron microscope: they had joined together into three-dimensional shapes that look like sunflowers, but only two-tenths of a millimetre across, taking a form that makes them 100 times more efficient.

from Top Technology News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/zwtJMTm

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