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Reconstitution of a Synthetic Mycobacterium tuberculosis System

Shaorong Chong of New England Biolabs in the U.S. will synthetically reconstruct essential biological processes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and use this system as a drug-testing platform for the screening of small-molecule therapeutics against multi-drug resistant M. tuberculosis.

More information about Apply Synthetic Biology to Global Health Challenges (Round 8)

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