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Scientists Solve a Vitamin B12 Mystery With an Unexpected Culprit
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- A virus kills a bacterium, and in the wreckage, other microbes may find one of life’s most essential nutrients: vitamin B12
- New research from Virginia Tech suggests that bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, can release vitamin B12 trapped inside bacterial cells
- That sudden nutrient windfall can then fuel neighboring microbes that cannot make B12 themselves, [
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A virus kills a bacterium, and in the wreckage, other microbes may find one of life’s most essential nutrients: vitamin B12. New research from Virginia Tech suggests that bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, can release vitamin B12 trapped inside bacterial cells. That sudden nutrient windfall can then fuel neighboring microbes that cannot make B12 themselves, [...]
