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  • The Vi­cis­si­tudes of a Tal­mu­dic Ques­tion

    The Vi­cis­si­tudes of a Tal­mu­dic Ques­tion

    March 14, 2019November 14, 2025

    by Elio — When we try to con­struct a Tal­mu­dic Ques­tion, we are con­cerned with the ac­cu­racy of the premise and en­sur­ing that an an­swer has not been pre­vi­ously pro­vided. We were toy­ing with this one: "Bac­te­r­ial en­dosym­bionts of in­sects have re­duced genomes but, best we know, they have not ex­ported some of their genes to the host cell nu­cleus (as or­ganelles have)...

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  • TWiM #80: Hurl­ing Fleas and De­signer Chro­mo­somes

    TWiM #80: Hurl­ing Fleas and De­signer Chro­mo­somes

    June 13, 2014February 5, 2026

    Vin­cent, Elio, and Michele dis­cuss how to syn­the­size a de­signer yeast chro­mo­some, and de­ci­pher­ing the ge­netic changes path that al­lowed Yersinia pestis to be trans­mit­ted by fleas.

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