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In this photo released by the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, horticultural researcher Anne Pribat studies a petri dish containing E. coli bacteria modified with a gene from the malaria parasite in her lab on the UF campus in Gainesville — Thursday, May 7, 2009. Pribat and her colleagues have discovered that many bacteria naturally contain a variation of the gene, which could be targeted for new antibacterial drug treatments.

(Thomas Wright, University of Florida/IFAS)
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