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