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Viruses may be 'watching' you – some microbes lie in wait until their hosts unknowingly give them the signal to start multiplying and kill them

  • Written by Ivan Erill, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Viruses may be 'watching' you – some microbes lie in wait until their hosts unknowingly give them the signal to start multiplying and kill themPhages can sense bacterial DNA damage, which triggers them to replicate and jump ship.Design Cells/iStock via Getty Images Plus

After more than two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, you might picture a virus as a nasty spiked ball – a mindless killer that gets into a cell and hijacks its machinery to create a gazillion copies of itself before...

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