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E.coli evolved to eat CO2

By Sophia Chen February 13, 2020

MRS Bulletin Materials News Podcast

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Sophia Chen of MRS Bulletin interviews Ron Milo of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel about a strain of E. coli his team developed that generates all its biomass from carbon dioxide. Their work was achieved through a technique called adaptive laboratory evolution, that is, evolutionary selection. Read the article in Cell.