Saturday, June 8, 2013

Exploding Bacteria

Exploding Bacteria
Scientists working in the field of synthetic biology have thought up a new way to cure diseases… except by “thought up” I mean they’ve been watching Michael Bay’s Transformers movies and seeing how everything explodes.
The scientists have created an Escherichia coli cell which – upon contact with certain pathogens – literally explodes, killing both the pathogen and itself.

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