Biological safety lock for genetically modified organisms

Wednesday, January 21, 2015 - 14:50 in Biology & Nature

Scientists have genetically recoded a strain of E. coli to depend on a synthetic amino acid so the bacteria can't survive outside the lab. The E. coli were also made resistant to two viruses.

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