Bacterial Host Response is Key to Severity of Viral Infection
The Science
Bacteria have a major impact on natural ecosystems, human health, disease progression and industrial processes using bacterial cultures, but viruses that infect bacteria can 
influence all of these systems. A recent study revealed how viruses that are common in the environment can efficiently infect some bacterial cells but not others.
The Impact
A better understanding of how host cells control viral infection could be invaluable for modeling virus-host interaction ecology, as well as for designing virus cocktails to fight pathogens.
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