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George Long, a graduate student of bioinformatics at McMaster, is the lead author of a study that identified and reconstructed the first ancient genome of E. coli using fragments extracted from the gallstone of a 16th century mummy. (Photo by Georgia Kirkos/McMaster University)

Researchers Reconstruct Genome Of Centuries-Old E. Coli Using Fragments Extracted From An Italian Mummy

AncientPages.com | June 18, 2022

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers identified and reconstructed the first ancient genome of E. coli, using fragments extracted from the gallstone of a 16th century mummy. E. coli is

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