Hunting New Clones (IMAGE)

Washington University in St. Louis

Hunting New Clones

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Debra Brock, a research scientist at Washington University in St. Louis, hunts for wild clones of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum. Many of the lab's discoveries have come from the wild clones and not the tame laboratory clone.

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Joan Strassmann

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