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The Best of Nature Network: 7-13 August 2010

Blogs Another new blogger joined the Nature Network ranks this week. Jim Caryl is a microbiologist from the University of Leeds, UK. His rather unusual project (and blog name) involves subjecting his bacteria to a ‘Gene Gym’. Jim explains the workout in his introductory post: As I’m working towards understanding bacterial fitness, I will be making a variety of gyms and assault courses for some rather unfortunate and flabby opportunistic pathogens, so I can better understand which assault courses result in the bugs bending double and sucking for air before dying out, and which result in the bugs overcoming their 

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