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#350 – Betül Kaçar: Origin of Life, Ancient DNA, Panspermia, and Aliens
Lex Fridman Podcast
How to Study Bacteria in the Lab
We study variety of different bacteria, depending on the questions that we ask, we engineer bacteria. We use cyanobacteria very frequently in the lab to understand early life and fundamental innovations across billions of years. So ideally we want to work with bacteria that we can engineer seldom because we developed the tools to engineer them. There are really good candidates like cyanobacteria. They're one of the prime nitrogen fixers, nitrogen fixing bacteria. It's sort of a pet lab pet that we use it a lot for cloning and for understanding basic functions of the cell.
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