Hidden Genes May Be Tapped for New Antibiotics | Newswise: News for Journalists

Credit: Illustration by Andrea Ameruoso/Chappell Lab

Rice University bioscientists have designed novel on and off switches to control the “silent” genes -- as many as 40 of them -- in a strain of bacteria. Their CRISPR-based strategy could boost the perpetual search for new antibiotics.

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