TWiM #60: Mi­cro­bial Elec­tro­chem­istry and Retroele­ments

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Hosts: Vin­cent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter and Michael Schmidt.

Vin­cent, Elio, and Michael dis­cuss how an er­ror-prone re­verse tran­scrip­tase pro­duces enor­mous di­ver­sity in a Le­gionella pro­tein, and us­ing mi­crobes to con­vert waste into bio­elec­tric­ity and chem­i­cals. 

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