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Engineered viruses can fight the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria

  • Written by Kevin Doxzen, Hoffmann Postdoctoral Fellow, Arizona State University
imageBacteriophage (yellow) are viruses that infect and destroy bacteria (blue). Christoph Burgstedt/Science Photo Library,Getty Images

As the world fights the SARS-CoV-2 virus causing the COVID-19 pandemic, another group of dangerous pathogens looms in the background. The threat of antibiotic-resistant bacteria has been growing for years and appears to...

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