To model bacterial life, Thornburg and his colleagues turned to one of its simplest examples: a bacterial cell with a ...
The problem of cell type became clear to genome biologist Jason Buenrostro in 2013. He was studying a cell line derived from someone with cancer, trying to map out how the DNA was arranged in the ...
A remarkably small bacterium containing fewer than 500 genes serves as the basis for one of the most detailed digital life ...