Betül Kaçar and Eric Gaucher, Georgia Institute of Technology (IMAGE)

Georgia Institute of Technology

Betül Kaçar and Eric Gaucher, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Postdoctoral Fellow Betül Kaçar and Associate Professor Eric Gaucher are watching evolution in action resurrecting a 500-million-year-old gene from bacteria and inserted it into modern-day Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria.

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Georgia Institute of Technology

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