{
  "id": 563625,
  "title": "Fighting pathogens by watching how they read their own DNA: Q&A with structural biologist",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/fighting-pathogens-by-watching-how-they-read-their-own-dna-q-a-with",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-11T11:00:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-08-pathogens-dna-qa-biologist.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Every living cell, from the simplest bacterium to a human neuron, relies on the same basic machinery to read, interpret, and use its DNA. This molecular machinery is so fundamental that life as we know it cannot exist without it. And because it is so essential, it has long been a target for drugs; it shuts down a bacterium's ability to access its own genes and it quickly dies.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}