The researchers created thousands of tailored DNA strands at once by coaxing viruses to replicate the strands inside bacterial hosts, they report. (sciencemag.org)
While anthrax is caused by a bacterium that invades and kills its animal host, bacteriophages, literally «bacteria eaters» are viruses that invade and kill bacterial hosts. (sciencedaily.com)
It enters its bacterial host by force, squeezing in between the cell wall and inner membrane. (sciencenews.org)