A bacteriophage encodes it’s own CRISPR
Just thought I would just do a quick post on a really interesting paper, ‘A bacteriophage encodes its own CRISPR/Cas adaptive response to evade host innate immunity’. Briefly summarised below… Vibrio cholera is in a dynamic relationship with phage – walking a tight rope between increasing phage resistance and decreasing virulence. There is an evolutionary…