University of Tokyo team accelerates bacterial genome evolution in the lab
Raluca Maniță
University of Tokyo May 13 2025 The genome structure — how genes are organized within DNA sequences in an organism — is fundamental to the processes and functions of organisms. A team at the University of Tokyo has developed a system to control and accelerate the evolution of changes in bacterial genome structure, targeting small "jumping genes," or DNA sequences known as insertion sequences. Most of what we know about evolution comes from studying the past. But some events, like the origin of
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