{"id":6726,"date":"2019-05-09T11:00:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T15:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=6726"},"modified":"2019-06-11T19:39:36","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T23:39:36","slug":"peering-into-the-past-scientists-discover-bacteria-transformed-a-viral-threat-to-survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/peering-into-the-past-scientists-discover-bacteria-transformed-a-viral-threat-to-survive\/","title":{"rendered":"Peering into the past, scientists discover bacteria transformed a viral threat to survive <img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cub.2019.04.032%C2%A0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Current Biology<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Published May 9, 2019 | 11:00 EDT<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/emb_releases\/2019-05\/iu-pit042919.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">News release<\/a> from Indiana University)<br \/>\nResearchers report a previously unknown way that bacteria develop new genes to evolve and adapt to threats, insight that could help advance efforts against superbugs. Researchers describe the first known evidence of bacteria stealing genetic material from their worst enemies \u2013 bacterial viruses called &#8220;phages&#8221; \u2013 and transforming it to survive. A gene once used by phages as a weapon against bacteria is now used by bacteria to grow and divide correctly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Canadian co-author:<\/strong> Yves Brun, Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:yves.brun@umontreal.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">yves.brun@umontreal.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current Biology Published May 9, 2019 | 11:00 EDT (News release from Indiana University) Researchers report a previously unknown way that bacteria develop new genes to evolve and adapt to threats, insight that could help advance efforts against superbugs. Researchers describe the first known evidence of bacteria stealing genetic material from their worst enemies \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[531,1327,3259,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest-fr","category-article-scientifique","category-heads-up","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1Ku","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6726"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6781,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6726\/revisions\/6781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}