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Nature 439, 384-386 (26 January 2006) | doi:10.1038/439384a; Published online 25 January 2006
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Six Lectureships - Carbon Capture
- University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University
- Edinburgh United Kingdom
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Genomics: Discovery in the dirt
Virginia Gewin1
- Virginia Gewin is a freelance science writer based in Portland, Oregon.
Abstract
Soil microbes are notoriously hard to culture, so how can we make the ground yield its secrets? Virginia Gewin finds that genetic sequencing — of samples not species — may be the answer.
Leonardo da Vinci once remarked that "We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot." You could argue that his insight still holds true the best part of 500 years later.
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java.lang.OutOfMemoryError
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