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Researchers Develop Genetic Tools to Engineer Common Gut Bacterium

Jul 09, 2015
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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed genetic parts that can be combined to program the commensal gut bacterium Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron.

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