Sentences with phrase «natural bacterial genes»

But Sauer fears that some companies, including those making industrial enzymes using natural bacterial genes spliced into E. coli, may find that their intellectual property has suddenly become worthless.

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Brady and coworkers amplify and sequence bacterial DNA from environmental soil samples and then look for gene clusters that encode enzyme systems likely to biosynthesize natural products with preselected characteristics.

And then we could take advantage of the natural repair mechanism in the bacterial cells to throw a more desirable gene in its place [source: RadioLab].