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My new Nature Education post, on genetically engineered solar bacteria

On Monday I mentioned that I’ve been asked to start writing for the Nature Education blog Student Voices. Well, my first post has been published, entitled Engineering Solar Bacteria, and it’s all about taking genes from marine bacterioplankton and putting them in E. coli, allowing them to use light as an energy source! A fascinating topic, something I might cover in more detail on Homologous Legs in the future.

Here’s a little taste:

Wouldn’t life be so much easier if we didn’t have to [...]

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