In other words, he says, the tools of modern microbiology allow scientists to finally listen in to the conversations happening in these tiny cheese-rind communities.
Invented by scientists in the Netherlands, the basic concept is to combine engineering with microbiology, and embed bacteria that can create limestone directly in the concrete.
The Human Genome Project, which was completed in 2003-by then, Rotimi was teaching microbiology at Howard University, in Washington, D.C.-sequenced most of a single person's genome.