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- Microbe with bizarrely tiny genome may be evolving into a virus
Hidden inside this dinoflagellate (Citharistes regius) is a tiny microbe so reliant on its host that scientists say it’s the most viruslike cellular organism known Takuro Nakayama University of Tsukuba The newly discovered microbe provisionally known as Sukunaarchaeum isn’t a virus
- Microbe With Bizarrely Tiny Genome May Be Evolving Into a . . .
The discovery of Sukunaarchaeum's bizarrely viruslike way of living, reported last month in a bioRxiv preprint, "challenges the boundaries between cellular life and viruses," says Kate Adamala, a synthetic biologist at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities who was not involved in the work "This organism might be a fascinating living fossil
- Even Synthetic Life Forms With a Tiny Genome Can Evolve
New research shows that minimal cells, which have the smallest genomes that still enable growth and reproduction, are capable of evolving The illustration portrays a minimal cell in the process of dividing
- 科学网—[转载]News from Science-297 - 崔锦华的博文
Microbe with bizarrely tiny genome may be evolving into a virus With DNA focused almost entirely on replication, newly discovered organism blurs the line between cells and viruses 13 JUN 2025 BY CHRISTIE WILCOX 2 Physicists’ hopes for an exotic muon collider get a boost
- Beyond the Double Helix: Strange New DNA Structures . . .
“About 8% of the genome, largely repetitive DNA, was left undetermined because the available technology and computational algorithms were unable to reconstruct these regions In 2022 and 2023, a massive effort by the Telomere-to-Telomere consortium filled in these gaps for the human genome, and this year, we did the same for all the great
- Genes from tiny viruses can turn bacteria into superbugs
Viruses that infect bacteria may drive the evolution of drug-resistant superbugs by inserting their genes into the bacterial DNA, a new study suggests The bacteria-attacking viruses, called
- Shining a Light on the World of Microproteins - The New York . . .
Scanning the human genome led to the discovery of 20,000 genes But scientists later discovered that they were actually missing a lot of proteins by searching this way
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