Illustration of Rice University's new peptide display method (IMAGE)

Rice University

Illustration of Rice University's new peptide display method

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Rice University synthetic biologists created a system where a peptide (yellow) on the outer surface of bacteria (top) binds to a sensor (purple/pink) to activate expression of a fluorescent protein (green) inside the bacteria (bottom).

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Maxwell Hunt/Rice University

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