Researchers study bacterium big enough to see -- the Shaquille O'Neal of bacteria
Wednesday, May 7, 2008 - 15:14
in Biology & Nature
Well, perhaps not quite Shaquille O'Neal. But it is Shaq-teria. The secret to an unusual bacterium's massive size -- it's the size of a grain of salt, or a million times bigger than E. coli bacteria, and big enough to see with the naked eye -- may be found in its ability to copy its genome tens of thousands of times.