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Microbe Discovered With One of The Smallest Genomes on Record, Pushing The Bounds of What It Means to Be Alive

Microbe Discovered With One of The Smallest Genomes on Record, Pushing The Bounds of What It Means to Be Alive

By Science Alert October 13, 2026 #alive, #Bounds, #discovered, #Genomes, #means, #microbe, #Nature, #Pushing, #Record, #smallest

Within this dinoflagellate plankton is a tiny microbe that acts more like a virus than a cell. (Takuro Nakayama/University of Tsukuba)

Microbe Discovered With One of The Smallest Genomes on Record, Pushing The Bounds of What It Means to Be Alive What is an organism, anyway?

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