article_snippet: The researchers weren't holding out much hope that it would work -- but The researchers were astonished by the lab results.
article_snippet: we were going from a mature, established population of a few billion cells, all stuck together in this highly protected biofilm coat, to really just a few thousand cells left alive.
article_snippet: The researchers were worried The researchers wouldn't be able to repeat the feat.
article_snippet: When we got the first results we were just utterly dumbfounded.