Very Long <i>E. Coli</i> (IMAGE)

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Very Long <i>E. Coli</i>

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Two researchers at Concordia University in Montreal have grown <I>E. coli</i> that stretch three quarters of a millimeter. That's up to 750 times their normal length (inset).

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Ziad El-Hajj

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