{"id":209221,"date":"2025-03-20T10:09:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T15:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/unveiling-bacterias-viral-defense-nine-genes-that-could-aid-phage-therapy"},"modified":"2025-03-20T10:09:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T15:09:31","slug":"unveiling-bacterias-viral-defense-nine-genes-that-could-aid-phage-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/unveiling-bacterias-viral-defense-nine-genes-that-could-aid-phage-therapy","title":{"rendered":"Unveiling bacteria\u2019s viral defense: Nine genes that could aid phage therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unveiling-bacterias-viral-defense-nine-genes-that-could-aid-phage-therapy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>University of Toronto researchers have discovered nine new genes used by bacteria to protect themselves against phages\u2014viruses that infect them.<\/p>\n<p>In a study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41564-025-01927-7\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Microbiology<\/i>, the researchers describe how they used a combination of bioinformatics and laboratory testing\u2014on sediment samples obtained from tanks at Ripley\u2019s Aquarium of Canada\u2014to identify the previously unknown defense genes.<\/p>\n<p>The findings could have profound implications for the development of strategies to treat bacterial infections, particularly those that are drug resistant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Toronto researchers have discovered nine new genes used by bacteria to protect themselves against phages\u2014viruses that infect them. In a study published in Nature Microbiology, the researchers describe how they used a combination of bioinformatics and laboratory testing\u2014on sediment samples obtained from tanks at Ripley\u2019s Aquarium of Canada\u2014to identify the previously unknown defense [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}