Researchers rapidly turn bacteria into biotech factories
Sunday, July 26, 2009 - 12:35
in Biology & Nature
BOSTON, Mass. (July 26, 2009) -- High-throughput sequencing has turned biologists into voracious genome readers, enabling them to scan millions of DNA letters, or bases, per hour. When revising a genome, however, they struggle, suffering from serious writer's block, exacerbated by outdated cell programming technology.