Galvin Programs Bacteria; Gets Rid of Herbicides
April 20th, 2011 | by Glenn Meyers
Justin Gallivan, associate professor of biomolecular chemistry at Emory University, is busy developing new ways to reprogram bacteria to carry out some remarkable new tasks – instructing the E. Coli bacteria, for instance, to eat atrazine, a widely used herbicide that can cause considerable contamination of ground water
