coli’s anvil, and application of these tools to the study of the bacterium itself has illuminated genetic regulation and exchange, virulence, nanomachines, bacterial social behavior, and evolution.Ĭarl Zimmer is an American science writer at the zenith of his profession. The tools of molecular biology were forged on E. coli has been the substratum for an astonishing number of scientific breakthroughs. coli and the new science of life, science writer Carl Zimmer reminds us that E. Escherichia coli is omnipresent in the mammalian gastrointestinal tract, but its life in broad daylight is also a fascinating story.
