Determining How ‘Gene Switch’ Works: Using Tuberculosis Bacteria To End 25-Year Quest

The bacterium behind one of mankind’s deadliest scourges, tuberculosis, is helping researchers at the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) move closer to answering the decades-old question of what controls the switching on and off of genes that carry out all of life’s functions.

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Filed under: Genetics on February 10th, 2009