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Wednesday, 23 July 2014

Model organism in life Science Research.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escherichia_coli

Role in biotechnology
Because of its long history of laboratory culture and ease of manipulation, E. coli also plays an important role in modern biological engineering and industrial microbiology.

The work of Stanley Norman Cohen and Herbert Boyer in E. coli, using plasmids and restriction enzymes to create recombinant DNA, became a foundation of biotechnology.

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