Scientists fool bacteria into killing themselves to survive
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 - 12:51
in Biology & Nature
Like firemen fighting fire with fire, researchers at the University of Illinois and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst have found a way to fool a bacteria's evolutionary machinery into programming its own death.
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