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CellBioNews Mar 13, 2024

Deciphering how #viruses choose to turn nasty or not to their #bacterial host.

https://phys.org/news/2024-03-deciphering-viruses-nasty-bacterial-host.html

Deciphering how viruses choose to turn nasty or not to their bacterial host

Researchers from the Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research at Tel Aviv University have deciphered a novel complex decision-making process that helps viruses choose to turn nasty or stay friendly to their bacterial host. In a new paper, they describe how viruses co-opt a bacterial immune system, intended to combat viruses like themselves, in this decision-making process.

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CellBioNews Dec 22, 2023

#Viruses as important factors driving the #diel dynamics of marine #bacterioplankton .

#periodicity #lysogeny #infection #oceans

https://phys.org/news/2023-12-viruses-important-factors-diel-dynamics.html

Viruses as important factors driving the diel dynamics of marine bacterioplankton

The diel cycle is one of the most common periodic patterns in marine ecosystems. Previously, the diel rhythm changes of marine bacterioplankton have often been attributed to factors like bacterial light-dependent physiological mechanisms or their interactions with photosynthetic organisms.

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CellBioNews Apr 12, 2023

Researchers uncover the tissue-#resident eukaryotic #DNA #virome in #humans.

#lysogeny

https://phys.org/news/2023-04-uncover-tissue-resident-eukaryotic-dna-virome.html

Researchers uncover the tissue-resident eukaryotic DNA virome in humans

Many common viruses responsible for childhood illnesses establish a home for life within us. This is evidenced in a new study carried out at the University of Helsinki and published in Nucleic Acids Research on March 23, 2023. The study is the first to track the distribution and co-existence of up to 12 different virus types in 9 organs of an individual.

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