Conceptual illustration of the upper part of an optical microscope penetrating a bacteriophage virus capsid. Bacteriophages are viruses that infect ba

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Conceptual illustration of the upper part of an optical microscope penetrating a bacteriophage virus capsid. Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria. The spikes (cyan) allow the virus to recognise and bind to host cells.

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