@ijep.studio: Zorya, the bacterial defense system that reels in a virus’s DNA and shreds it A virus lands on a bacterium, locks on with its tail fibres, drives its needle through the cell wall and pumps its genome inside. The cell was ready. Its defense system, Zorya, works like a motor: a flow of protons spins a long tail inside the cell, the spinning tail winds up the incoming viral DNA like a winch, and two enzymes arrive to cut it to pieces. The virus is left empty on the surface. The cell lives. Zorya was discovered by scientists in 2025, and it’s named after the Slavic goddess of the dawn, the guardian who keeps watch. Every bacterium carries defenses like this; this is what one of them looks like in action. #flagellarmotor #atpsynthase #learning #coolscience #molecularbiology #flagellum #scienceanimation #molecularmotor #biotok #phage #bacteria #virus #immunesystem #microbiology #molecularbiology #sciencevisualization #zorya #biology #science#learnontiktok #stem
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stormageddon613 :
That is so freaking cool
2026-11-01 14:22:54
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Ash :
bacteries can defend from bacteriofags?
2026-11-01 12:30:48
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Pandora Young :
Please don't move the camera so fast, I wanna look at and appreciate all the cool stuff:P
2026-11-01 14:25:43
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Tape :
Bad day to be virus DNA 💀
2026-11-01 13:01:12
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Suga_Agus :
bacteriophage..... this shiit is so bizzare
2026-11-01 12:41:12
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Mariel Deeney :
Thank you, thank you body, for taking care of itself.[Pray]
2026-11-01 14:22:01
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Domino Davies :
How many millions of year did it take for them to learn to work together to do that !
2026-11-01 13:57:18
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Dwainenunley :
Interesting
2026-11-01 14:17:28
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kev🐻 :
How do you even observe this
2026-11-01 13:53:07
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Bumpy :
all this so we can continue paying taxes on hellworld.
2026-11-01 13:15:24
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kledaras :
by random chance they say
2026-11-01 13:20:22
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LJ💙 :
I dont like this, not one bit. Is it "cool"? Sure. Is it also terrifying?! Yes
2026-11-01 14:08:00
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IA.Beta :
It's random, chaos, they say 😏 . ☝️
2026-11-01 12:13:43
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ZLUTZ :
bacteriophage fancam ?!
2026-11-01 12:37:42
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terryjarmain :
Absolutely fascinating.
2026-11-01 12:09:50
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the ginger ninja :
it always looks like its made out of wool to me, kinda looks like the mess my grandma would walk into the lounge to find when she left me alone for 5 minutes when i was young
2026-11-01 12:22:52
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Dimon :
и все это происходит прямо сейчас с нами
2026-11-01 12:48:49
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kevin :
con q así se crean las gemas
2026-11-01 13:06:20
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Veter :
Они тоже думают что единственные в своём мире.
2026-11-01 13:13:48
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S.A WOLF PH Studio :
Evolution has a price! 🧬💥 What you’re seeing is a bacteriophage (a virus that hunts bacteria) injecting its DNA to destroy it. But the bacteria has a defense system (like CRISPR or restriction enzymes) that detects that foreign DNA and chops it up instantly. That’s phage resistance! 😎❌
But here is the craziest scientific twist: the evolutionary trade-off. 🔥
To defend itself from the virus and destroy its DNA, the bacteria had to mutate and drop its other defenses. The result? That very same virus-resistant bacteria becomes extremely weak and vulnerable to antibiotics. 🩺💊
2026-11-01 13:27:20
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батончик :
если бы там внутри все это происходило именно с такими звуками то это было бы гораздо страшнее
2026-11-01 13:26:24
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RootRevolution :
Was the structure of viruses known before alien landing spacecrafts showed up in entertainment media?
2026-11-01 12:42:01
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Finger ninja :
Savage just savage
2026-11-01 12:04:26
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😈𝙁𝙡Λ𝙫ius👿 :
I gonna tell my kids this is the first Mario game 😂
2026-11-01 12:28:31
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