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Keeping CRISPR under control: how bacteria fight viruses without harming themselves

Bacteria are in a constant struggle with the viruses that infect them. While we often think of bacteria as agents of infection, bacteria are in turn infected by viruses, called phage. The phage that infect bacteria and archaea are the most abundant class of organism... click to read more

Addison V. Wright | PhD student at University of California, Berkeley, MCB

CRISPR

crystallography

Reading time 4 min

published on Jan 14, 2019

Capturing Mother Nature at work: seeing how plants make vitamin B6

Vitamins are essential for life. They perform a huge variety of tasks within metabolism, with many helping to promote biochemical reactions in our bodies. In general, we cannot make vitamins from scratch, and so we must obtain them from our diet. Plants and microorganisms can... click to read more

Graham Robinson | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Department of Botany and Plant Biology, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Teresa Fitzpatrick | Professor at Department of Botany and Plant Biology, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Arabidopsis thaliana

vitamin B2

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plants metabolism

Reading time 4 min

published on Feb 16, 2017