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Researchers team up with viruses to evolve a better insecticide

2016-05-02 15:30:59| Extremetech

A collaborative team of researchers just used viruses to chivvy along evolution, resulting in a new bacterial toxin useful on pesticide-resistant insects. It calls to mind that old saying: the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

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