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Scientists discover small RNA that regulates bacterial infection

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Scientists discover small RNA that regulates bacterial infection People with weakened immune systems are at constant risk of infection. Abell Chair in Molecular and Cellular Biology – and Pengbo Cao, a postdoctoral researcher in Whiteley’s lab, discovered a gene that drives the switch. aeruginosa infections.

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2020 Year in Review: COVID-19, CRISPR and Immunotherapies Define the Year for the Life Sciences

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When a virus infects bacteria (these viruses are called bacteriophages), parts of its genetic material can get incorporated into the genome of the bacterium as sequences called clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR). Single-Cell RNA Sequencing.