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In a tragic coda to this early story of eugenics, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory was still enmeshed in the controversy over eugenics as recently as January 2019, this time through the disgraceful racist utterances of Nobel laureate James D. Watson, cofounder of the DNA double helix and one of the laboratory’s longtime fellows, whom they stripped of

Scientists discovered a suite of previously undetected

smell). Lactobacillus is a ubiquitous, mostly friendly bacteria found in the human gut in modest quantities and is used to make yoghurts.

E. coli can make perfect copies of our proteins, amino acid for amino acid, but if it can’t add the sugars, many of its proteins are useless to us. Schultz and his colleagues have found a way around this shortcoming. Instead of adding the sugar after a protein is built, they add it to individual amino acids. They then engineer E. coli to recognize

L. reuteri is unique among bacteria in that it “prefers” to colonize the upper gastrointestinal tract, the stomach, duodenum, jejunum, and ileum, rather than to take up residence only in the colon,

One of the acknowledged facts is that bacteria live in a variety of habitats; as recognised by the establishment definition that states, “Some live in soil, water or air...” However, the definition makes the additional claim that, “…others are parasites of humans, animals and plants.” It is an error to refer to any bacterium as a parasite, the esta