The discovery demonstrates the value of using microbial systems to investigate ecological and evolutionary questions, and has strong implications for our understanding and even treatment of infectious diseases. (sciencedaily.com)
Clement Furlong, a researcher in medical and genomic sciences at the University of Washington notes that the «huge advantage» of these heavy - chain - only antibodies «is that you can make them by fermentation in microbial systems and make a lot of antibodies inexpensively.» (scientificamerican.com)
The Rush team brought the samples to U-M's Center for Microbial Systems for sequencing, and Snitkin's team started to put the genome data together with what Hayden's team had found out about the outbreak. (sciencedaily.com)