Step aside, E. coli

• Autores: Ben Panko
• Localización: Science, ISSN 0036-8075, Vol. 352, Nº 6293, 2016, págs. 1503-1503
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Escherichia coli has long been the bacterium of choice for laboratory experiments, but geneticist George Church and his team are hoping to save scientists time by getting them to use a faster-reproducing model organism. Vibrio natriegens is a salt marsh organism with a doubling time of as little as 10 minutes—twice the fastest time for E. coli. Church's team has released the first complete genome of V. natriegens, and hope to make it a "drop-in, turnkey alternative" to E. coli for future research. Biologists see questions still to be resolved about V. natriegens, but are cautiously optimistic about its potential.