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From 2002 to 2010, a team at the Hungarian Academy of Science, created a strain of Escherichia coli called MDS42, which is now sold by Scarab Genomics, of Madison, WI under the name of "Clean Genome. E.coli", where 15% of the genome of the parental strain (E. coli K-12 MG1655 ) were removed to aid in molecular biology efficiency, removing IS elements, pseudogenes and phages, resulting in better maintenance of plasmid-encoded toxic genes, which are often inactivated by transposons. Biochemistry and replication machinery were not altered.
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