Kazuhiko Kurosawa was running out of variables. For eight months he had made hundreds of cultures of Rhodococcus fascians - manipulating pH, temperature, salt concentration, media type, oxygen levels, even degree of agitation - each time attempting to provoke the bacteria into transcribing a set of genes he knew lay dormant in its genome. But the soil-dwelling bacteria remained recalcitrant.
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