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2008, James Collins, a biologist at Boston University, and Tim Lu of MIT published details of the first phage engineered to kill. Their new phage is especially effective because it’s tailored to attack the rubbery sheets that bacteria embed themselves in, known as biofilms. Biofilm can foil antibiotics and phages alike, because they can’t penetrate the tough goo and reach the bacteria inside.
A Planet of Viruses
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