A new study in the journal Nature reveals that bacteria and people share the same core machinery for fighting off viruses and sheds light on how that ancient machinery works. The discovery could lead to novel treatments for human diseases, much like the gene-editing tool CRISPR also modeled after a bacterial weapon has.
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When it comes to fighting off invaders, bacteria operate in a remarkably similar way to human cells, possessing the same core machinery required to switch
New research published in the journal Nature reveals that bacteria and people share the same core machinery for fighting off viruses and sheds light on how that ancient machinery works. The discovery could pave the way to novel approaches for treating human diseases, much like the gene-editing tool CRISPR which was also modeled after a weapon bacteria used to fight viruses has.