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Study links scientists' work to a dangerous bacterium's evolution

News from Science says an analysis of more than 1,000 bacterial genomes connects a deadly 1919 dinner to Botox.

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Botox was born by domesticating a killer bacterium
Genome analysis shows how decades of lab cultivation turned C. botulinum, the canned food killer, into a potent tool for medicine and the beauty industry

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News from Science reports that a study of more than 1,000 bacterial genomes connects a 1919 dinner party that killed five people, a 1920s effort to save the canning industry, a World War II biological weapons program, a CIA plot against Fidel Castro and Botox. The study says scientists unwittingly triggered a dangerous bacterium's evolution into one with major medical and commercial advantages.

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