Streptomyces (IMAGE)

Washington University in St. Louis

Streptomyces

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Biologists at Washington University in St. Louis are using comparative metabologenomics to try to uncover what may be “silencing” Streptomyces and preventing it from producing desirable compounds encoded by its genes.

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Joshua Blodgett, Washington University in St. Louis

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