Making bacteria make useful proteins
Monday, September 7, 2009 - 05:21
in Biology & Nature
By adapting a single protein on the surface of the bacterium Caulobacter crescentus, researchers at the University of British Columbia have turned it into a protein production factory, making useful proteins that can act as vaccines and drugs. Dr John Smit presented the findings at the Society for General Microbiology's meeting at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, today...