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Commandeering microbes pave way for synthetic biology in military environments
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- October 2, 2018
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- U.S. Army Research Laboratory
- Summary:
- Scientists have developed and demonstrated a pioneering synthetic biology tool to deliver DNA programming into a broad range of bacteria.
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A team of scientists from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed and demonstrated a pioneering synthetic biology tool to deliver DNA programming into a broad range of bacteria.
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- Jennifer A. N. Brophy, Alexander J. Triassi, Bryn L. Adams, Rebecca L. Renberg, Dimitra N. Stratis-Cullum, Alan D. Grossman, Christopher A. Voigt. Engineered integrative and conjugative elements for efficient and inducible DNA transfer to undomesticated bacteria. Nature Microbiology, 2018; 3 (9): 1043 DOI: 10.1038/s41564-018-0216-5
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