E. coli bacteria are often portrayed in a negative light. However, in 1973, Herbet Boyer and Stanley Cohen used E. coli as a vehicle to develop recombinant DNA technology. By inserting plasmids with foreign DNA into E. coli, they showed that genetic materials could be transferred between species.

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