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via Pierre Turcotte, thanks! From a bacteria’s perspective the environment is one big DNA waste yard. Researchers from Denmark and Norway have now shown that bacteria can take up small as well as large pieces of old DNA from this scrapheap and include it in their own genome. This discovery may have major consequences both in connection with resistance to antibiotics in hospitals and in our perception of the evolution of life itself. lifescience.net/news/164/bacteria-recycle-broken-dna/
Posted on: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 22:30:56 +0000

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