Building a Virtual Microbe, Gene by Gene by Gene
5th Sep 2005, 15:10 GMT
An international team of biologists is trying to reconstruct a living thing inside a computer, down to every last molecule, based on Escherichia coli. A full-blown model of E. coli would be able to swim, eat food, fight off invading viruses, make ...
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