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Acclerating Evolution Monday, July 27, 2009 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> General Science   
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If humans want to persuade microbes to produce vast quantities of fuels or pharmaceuticals, we may need to give evolution a helping hand. A new genome engineering machine that tweaks dozens of genes to create billions of unique strains in a few days does just that. "This technique allows us to do some amount of rapid evolution," says Harris Wang, a researcher at Harvard Medical School, who led the project along with colleagues Farren Isaacs and George Church. (source: newscientist.com)
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