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Jul. 15, 2011
Playing Cut And Paste With DNA Of Living Bacteria
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| Reporting in Science, researchers write of editing the genomic code of living bacteria, switching out a specific string of DNA building blocks with a similar sequence, over 300 times. Study author Peter Carr of MIT talks about the work, and what the technique could be used for. |
Produced by Christopher Intagliata, Associate Senior Producer
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Peter Carr
Senior Researcher
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lexington, Massachusetts
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