Scientists
place 500-million-year-old gene in modern organism
It’s a
project 500 million years in the making. Only this time, instead of playing on
a movie screen in Jurassic Park, it’s happening in a lab at the Georgia
Institute of Technology.
Using a
process called paleo-experimental evolution, Georgia Tech researchers have
resurrected a 500-million-year-old gene from bacteria and inserted it into
modern-day Escherichia coli(E. coli) bacteria. This bacterium has now been
growing for more than 1,000 generations, giving the scientists a front row seat
to observe evolution in action.
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