This Week in Mi­cro­bi­ol­ogy #125: A min­i­mal cell op­er­at­ing sys­tem

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A deep se­quenc­ing study of com­mer­cially avail­able pro­bi­otics, and de­sign and syn­the­sis of a min­i­mal bac­te­r­ial genome are the top­ics tack­led by Vin­cent, Michael, and Michele on this episode of TWiM.

Hosts: Vin­cent Racaniello, Michele Swan­son, and Michael Schmidt.

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Links for this episode

• Cul­ture-in­de­pen­dent sur­veil­lance of pro­bi­otics (mSphere)
• De­sign and syn­the­sis of a min­i­mal bac­te­r­ial genome (Sci­ence)
• J. Craig Ven­ter In­sti­tute
• Im­age credit
• Let­ters read on TWiM 125

This episode is spon­sored by ASM Agar Art Con­test and ASM Mi­crobe 2016

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