Novel Method Quickens Discovery Of Gene Function

Friday, August 8, 2008 - 13:28 in Biology & Nature

Think researchers know all there is to know about Escherichia coli, commonly known as E. coli? Think again. "E. coli has more than four thousand genes, and the functions of one-fourth of these remain unknown," says a biology professor whose laboratory specializes in carrying out research using the bacterium.

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