Faster than a speeding bacteria This Week in Evolution

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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