Examples abound in nature in which organisms adapt and optimize their fitness in a given environment. A new study demonstrates that a cellular cost-benefit analysis drives growth optimization over the ...
While CRISPR may be the most notable genetic technology to emerge from microbes, many of the tools researchers use to control genes and their products are borrowed from bacterial systems. One of these ...
Escherichia coli is a rod-shaped (bacillus) Gram-negative bacterium that is frequently used as a model organism. Factors such as its ability to grow fast using cheap media and availability of ...