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Nature's Most Wicked-Looking Robot, the Bacteriophage [This Cyborg Life]

Sort by Gizmodo (Free subscription) - 11/11/2009 - YouTube

Bacteriophage (Hybrid Medical Animation)

T4 bacteriophages targeting E. coli bacteria. Bacteriophages are small viruses that infect bacteria and kill them by multiplying and essentially filli...


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Nature's Most Wicked-Looking Robot, the Bacteriophage [This Cyborg Life]

Sort by Gizmodo (Free subscription) - 11/11/2009

I can't lie; I've been waiting for an excuse to post a picture of a bacteriophage, the microscopic spider virus that lands on bacteria to inject its own DNA, for a long time. This Cyborg Life gives me an excuse. Rather than attacking typical plant or animal cells, the bacteriophage uses bacteria as its host for replication. Highly specialized, the bacteriophage lands on a specific part of a specific...