‘ghosts’ – the empty-headed phages stuck to the outside of bacteria – and expressed a ‘wildly comical possibility.’32 Perhaps the phages injected some kind of genetic material, syringe like, into the host cell, and it was this that changed the host’s nature from thriving cell to suicidal virus factory? Around this time, other work by members of the Phage Group had determined that phages contained just protein and DNA, nothing more. And so, one of these must be the genetic material that carries the blueprint of life.
