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New Technique Used to Profile Anthrax Genome

Posted March 20, 2009 Atlanta

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Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have used a new approach, known as RNA-Seq, to profile the gene expression of the bacterium that causes anthrax, Bacillus anthracis. Their study, published March 20, 2009 online by the Journal of Bacteriology, marks the first time any bacterial transcriptome

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