Undergraduate researchers (IMAGE)

Purdue University

Undergraduate researchers

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Undergraduate students from a range of majors take part in a biotechnology course to isolate and study bacteriophages, viruses that destroy bacteria cells by infecting them and reproducing inside them. Some bacteriophages may be able to help treat antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Students in the class recently named one of their bacteriophages for President Mitch Daniels.

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