<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/building-on-beal-the-power-of-basic-science.aspx" dsn="blogs"><homehero/><pubDate>01/15/2021</pubDate><title>Building on Beal: The power of basic science</title><description>Jan 15, 2021 - The <em>MSU Alumni</em> magazine highlights Rich Lenski’s Long-Term Evolution Experiment (LTEE), which has produced over 73,000 generations of E. coli bacteria since 1988.</description><author/><hero-image><img src="" alt="Building on Beal: The power of basic science"/></hero-image><image><img src="/_assets/images/news/2021/building-on-beal.jpg" alt="Building on Beal: The power of basic science"/></image></item>