Are microbes about to remake manufacturing? This synthetic biologist thinks so

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By Suzanne JacobsNov 3, 2015, 4:11 pm39 pts
Microbes are everywhere. They’re too small for the eye to see, but these bacteria, yeast, and other microscopic creatures are in the soils that grow our crops, in the air around us, all over our skin, and inside our guts. Each one of us, in fact, is host to more bacteria than actual human cells. And the more…

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