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    Take 2 E. coli and call me in the morning

    June 30, 2019, Categories  Biology/Biotechnology, Health/Medical

    When E. coli bacteria are exposed to a certain biological signal, the trigger element engineered into their DNA flips the memory element into an “on” state, allowing easy identification of bacteria that “remember” the presence of the signal. Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University

    Synthetic bacterial memory circuits enable microbial diagnostics for sensing biomolecules in the gut...

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