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Title: Fox Health: Gonorrhea Evolved by Looting Human DNA, Scientist Says
Post by: riky on February 15, 2011, 12:51:00 PM
Gonorrhea Evolved by Looting Human DNA, Scientist Says
     


<p>The first direct transfer of human DNA to bacteria was recently discovered by researchers in an unlikely source: gonorrhea. Northwestern Medicine researchers discovered that Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the bacterium that causes gonorrhea, had evidence of a human DNA fragment. And further research shows this transfer as an evolutionary event.</p>
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