Colonies of successfully transformed bacteria are shown here in blue.
Credit: Courtesy of the J. Craig Venter Institute

From the Labs

From the Labs: Biotechnology

  • September/October 2007
  • By Emily Singer

New publications, experiments and breakthroughs in biotechnology--and what they mean.

   

Transplanting a Genome
Scientists successfully transform one bacterial species into another

SOURCE: "Genome Transplantation in Bacteria: Changing One Species to Another"
John I. Glass et al.
Science online, June 28, 2007

RESULTS: Scientists at the J. Craig ­Venter Institute in Rockville, MD, have transferred the entire genome of one bacterium into another bacterium. The host bacterium took on characteristics of the donor--for example, producing proteins specific to that species.

 

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