On August 27, I wrote to Duke's Office of Counsel, informing them that Howellβs book has been withdrawn by its publisher because of the fabricated quote.
The reagents of the feedstock are never produced by processes as on the early Earth. Production requires substantial energy and controlled industrial procedures
What about attempts to test their virulence in humans? The approach in the Stanford lab sure sounds like a new form of gain-of-function research to me.
It makes sense to think that the T3SS didnβt evolve into the bacterial flagellum, but that the bacterial flagellum shed some protein parts to become a T3SS.Β