TWiV explains how cross-reactive anti-prophage antibodies and bacterial heteroresistance is implicated in phage therapeutic failure, and how phages communicate across species to shape microbial ecosystems.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Brianne Barker, and Jolene Ramsey

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• Support science education at MicrobeTV
• Positions in Rosenfeld Lab (email)
• Craig Venter dies (Nature)
• Hantavirus outbreak (WHO)
• Hantavirus on board (YouTube)
• HPS 25th anniversary discovery story (EID)
• Phage therapeutic failure unraveled (Nat Med)
• Phages communicate across species (Cell)
• Control of lysis-lysogeny decisions (Trends Micro)
• Arbitrium phages manipulate each other (Cell)
• Elio Schaechter on arbitrium (TWiM 146)
• Letters read  on TWiV 1321
• Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

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