EU Starting Microbe Storage Network

Mar 19, 2009

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) - The European Union will spend €4.2 million ($5.8 million) to create a pan-European network of microbial specialty centers that will collect, analyze, and preserve microbe samples such as bacteria, viruses, and microscopic fungi, and will include a DNA bank.

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