They collated data from over 900 publications to account for everything going on inside the bacterial cell.

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Now fast-forward to May of last year, when Venter and his team reported in Science (The Creation of a Bacterial Cell Controlled by a Chemically Synthesized Genome in Science), the successful generation of a cell directed entirely by a synthetic genome, programmed from a computer and synthesized piece by piece.

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The probability of actually catching the flu or a bacterial infection as a result of cell phone contact is actually dependent on a number of factors how long the viruses or bacteria have been on the phone surface.

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The inability of the vaccine industry to react more swiftly to a single bad bacterial contamination underscores the need for a better manufacturing process, one using mammalian cell cultures.

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