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The Skeptics Guide #939 - Jul 8 2023

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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The Evolution of Bacteria With a Minimized Genome

A study involving bacterial cells with a minimized genome in which every gene is deemed essential revealed at a dramatically reduced rate of evolutionary adaptation to stress environments is the fiction. And my coides, they basically racked out about half the genes. They left behind like 400 and something. So first of all, when you go from the baseline bacteria to the minimized genome bacteria, as Cara said, they lose a lot of their robustness. Yeah, they were out-competed and out-evolved by the non-minimal, the original... Delegate flow. You can pay for it. You can get good healthcare. But I'm also curious, and I know that this is a

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