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Science 29 June 2007:
Vol. 316. no. 5833, p. 1827
DOI: 10.1126/science.316.5833.1827a
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GENETICS:
Replacement Genome Gives Microbe New Identity

Elizabeth Pennisi

In a feat reported in a paper published online by Science this week (www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1144622), researchers have induced a bacterium to take up the entire genome of another, related bacterium, thereby transforming one bacterial species into another.

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