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The Good Virus, written by Tom Ireland, explored the fascinating world of phages, viruses that infect bacteria, explaining their ubiquity and potential role in human health, particularly in fighting bacterial infections.
The book I chose is by a science writer named Tom Ireland. And it has a name that sounds almost like an oxymoron. It's called The Good Virus.
— Episode: The good virus
Episode: The good virus
The Good Virus, written by Tom Ireland, explored the fascinating world of phages, viruses that infect bacteria, explaining their ubiquity and potential role in human health, particularly in fighting bacterial infections.
The book I chose is by a science writer named Tom Ireland. And it has a name that sounds almost like an oxymoron. It's called The Good Virus.
And it's only recently that people have started to actually look at phages and try and categorize and classify all of them.
So there's a guy called Forrest Rower who was really interested in the viruses of corals...
So we have this kind of layer of protection, of immunity sort of stuck into those important surfaces where the inside of our body meets the outside of our body.
Tom Ireland's book is called The Good Virus. And if you want to learn more about phages and about the people trying to use them as a tool to fight off bacterial infections, I really recommend it.