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Bacterium Big Enough to See Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Biology   
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Well, perhaps not quite Shaquille O'Neal. But it is Shaq-teria. The secret to an unusual bacterium's massive size - it's the size of a grain of salt, or a million times bigger than E. coli bacteria, and big enough to see with the naked eye - may be found in its ability to copy its genome tens of thousands of times. That's according to Cornell research published in a recent issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
(source: news.cornell.edu)
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