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TWiEVO 93: Faster than a speeding bacteria
Episode 93

TWiEVO 93: Faster than a speeding bacteria

This Week in Evolution

August 25, 20231h 30m

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Show Notes

Nels and Vincent review a collision of synthetic biology and experimental evolution, using a minimal synthetic bacterial cell with only 473 genes, the smallest genome of any known organism that can be grown in lab culture.

Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello

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