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Topic: Jeff Hasty

March 5, 2020 By Carrie Arnold
Biodiversity may thrive through games of rock-paper-scissors

Biodiversity may thrive through games of rock-paper-scissors

A pioneer of synthetic biology at the University of California, San Diego, Jeff Hasty has spent his 20-year career designing strategies to make genetic circuits in engineered bacteria work together. But several years ago, Hasty had to admit that even he couldn’t outfox the humble bacterium Escherichia coli.
Original story from Quanta Magazine.

Topics: Jeff Hasty, Michael Liao, Quanta Magazine

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