(AP) — Scientist Geoff Lowman poses with a chip that reads DNA and is being used to help decode genomes in the outbreaks of E. coli affecting Europe at the Life Technologies laboratory Wednesday, June 8, 2011, in Carlsbad, Calif.
The new technology gave way to the development of a rapid test which can be used to determine whether a food source contains the pathogen within 10 to 24 hours. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
