At UC Berkeley, there is new hope for some of mankind’s biggest maladies from research about the smallest of creatures.“What we have found is fundamental,” Simon Prochnik, a bioinformaticist at the DOE Joint Genome Institute, said.Prochnik studies the genetic make-up of single celled amoebas. He and a team of researchers have now sequenced the genome of a strange, single-celled organism called Naegleria gruberi. They say it is very similar to the most fundamental and early life that existed on Earth 1 billion years ago.
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