DOE/LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY IMAGE: A STRUCTURAL MODEL OF A BACTERIOPHAGE AT ATOMIC RESOLUTION CREDIT: DR. VICTOR PADILLA-SANCHEZ, PHD As conventional antibiotics continue to lose effectiveness against evolving pathogens, scientists are keen to employ the bacteria-killing techniques perfected by bacteriophages, the viruses that infect bacteria. One major challenge standing in their way is the difficulty...
