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UA Researchers Engineer Self-Destructing Virus
Dr. Bentley Fane
Working with a virus that infects bacteria, BIO5 member Bentley Fane, a professor in the Department of Veterinary Sciences and Microbiology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and James Cherwa, a graduate student in Fane's lab, pinpointed a region of a protein that's crucial to building the virus' structure; designed a modified version of that protein; and then engineered the bacteria's cells to produce the modified protein. When the virus ... ( Read more )


