
Ep118: Ivan Liachko on Assembling Accurate Genomes and Interactomes
The Long Run with Luke Timmerman
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Using Viruses to Kill Bacteria
Using viruses to combat harmful bacteria is being done, morot something that's being worked on heavily in the space right now. This basi field of inquiry is what gave rise to crisper, isn't it? So bacteria defend against viruses, and crisper is one such defence, right? And so for sure. You can take a page that normally infects bacteria x, and you, you know, you can use it to kill bacteriax. These can be surgical strikes against the bad blacks, as you just go right after the bad lonend. We're providing this new tech that allows this, like large scale discovery of fage host biology and things like that.
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