Major antimicrobial power boost as phages form into surprising flower shapes

Low-Res_Phage flower

Source: McMaster University

Researchers treated bacteria-eating viruses so they could be viewed alive under an electron microscope and coaxed them to join together into flower-like shapes - discovering that this made them 100 times more efficient.

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