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Timothy Lu at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology aim to make a single phage modifiable with bacteria-attacking machinery from other phages.
Phage viruses infect and replicate inside bacteria, killing them, so are a possible alternative to antibiotics – and are more selective.
Successfully modified phage that normally kills E. coli to kill Yersinia and Klebsiella bacteria.
The study was published in the Cell Systems journal.
