Viruses on Tenu Tech Brief https://cluster-site.onrender.com/tags/viruses/ Recent content in Viruses on Tenu Tech Brief Hugo -- 0.146.0 en-us Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:43:08 +0000 Viruses reveal shared way to kill bacteria by jamming small transporter MurJ https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/viruses-reveal-shared-way-to-kill-bacteria-by-jamming-small-transporter-murj/ Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:04:36 +0000 https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/viruses-reveal-shared-way-to-kill-bacteria-by-jamming-small-transporter-murj/ • Biochemists at Caltech have identified how viruses have converged on a method for killing bacteria • The researchers have homed in on an underexplored small transporter called Mu Giant DNA viruses encode their own eukaryote-like translation machinery, researchers discover https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/giant-dna-viruses-encode-their-own-eukaryote-like-translation-machinery-researchers-discover/ Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:20:07 +0000 https://cluster-site.onrender.com/posts/giant-dna-viruses-encode-their-own-eukaryote-like-translation-machinery-researchers-discover/ • In a new study, published in Cell, researchers describe a newfound mechanism for creating proteins in a giant DNA virus, comparable to a mechanism in eukaryotic cells. • The find