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- Title
Biotechnologists Build a Better Bug.
- Authors
Franklin, Deborah
- Abstract
The article presents information on developments related to the commercial production of live bacteria. Nearly 300 genetic engineers from 17 countries who gathered at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California in 1983 to compare their growing list of biochemical tools predicted that a new bacteria, Bacillus subtilis, may speed the process of commercial production of live bacteria. Scientists around the world first developed chemical tools in the early 1970s that could cut, insert information, and resplice the genetic material of cells E. coli. Vasantha Nagarajan, researcher for Genex Corp., a biotechnology firm, reported that her firm has ability to identify, clone, and transplant into B. subtilis a gene that codes for the enzyme subtilisin.
- Subjects
PALO Alto (Calif.); CALIFORNIA; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL genetic engineering; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHEMICAL engineering; NAGARAJAN, Vasantha; GENEX Corp.; STANFORD University
- Publication
BioScience, 1983, Vol 33, Issue 11, p678
- ISSN
0006-3568
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/bioscience/33.11.678