CELL 2 (IMAGE)

Rice University

CELL 2

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Rice University postdoctoral researcher Sara Molinari and graduate student Shyam Bhakta illuminate a colony of E. coli bacteria. The researchers and their colleagues discovered a technique to prompt bacteria to mimic stem cells' ability to differentiate when they divide.

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Jeff Fitlow/Rice University

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