Even Synthetic Life Forms With a Tiny Genome Can Evolve
By watching “minimal” cells regain the fitness they lost, researchers are testing whether a genome can be too simple to evolve
https://www.quantamagazine.org/even-synthetic-life-forms-with-a-tiny-genome-can-evolve-20230809
Evolution of a minimal cell
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06288-x
Even a ‘minimal cell’ can grow stronger, thanks to evolution
Exploring evolution in a ‘minimal cell’, and Galaxy-wide gravitational waves
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02232-1
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