High school students publish paper with RIT scientists analyzing rare bacterium

(Rochester Institute of Technology) Three high school students from an urban charter school in Rochester, N.Y., found a rare e-coli-killing bacterium on a door handle at Rochester Institute of Technology while gaining college experience through a senior capstone program. They genetically sequenced and analyzed the bacterium in the RIT Genomics Lab and are now co-authors with their RIT faculty mentor on a paper published in The American Society for Microbiology's Microbiology Resource Announcements.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news