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I think this might count as endosymbiosis replicated in a lab: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30373839/

People used to think it was really rare -- until someone actually recreated it in the lab[0]. In this paper, the researchers created a strain of bacteria (prokaryote) that would on…

Link to the actual publication: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05922-y

Original paper linked here (behind paywall) [0]. The researchers introduced the human FTO gene into plants to increase crop yields. Would this be cannibalism? You could use RNA dem…

I don't think this article gives the pro-"Junk DNA" arguments fair treatment. Check out Larry Moran's blog [1, 2] if you want to to hear the other side of the story. He maintains t…

Link to actual study: https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/j...

I love when I see smell research on Hacker News -- and hopefully I can provide a bit of context about this paper. This finding recently made a big splash at AChemS 2021 (the annual…

This is a pretty brute force method for genetic engineering -- and yet it works! It's essentially just pressing fast forward on evolution. But this is wildly inefficient. Plant gen…

Thanks for the link! Cool to think about how the evolution of smell has optimized for "a maximum entropy code." I totally agree, it's a feature not a bug. A wide spectrum is absolu…

Love seeing these types of posts on HN! Every now and then I see a post about olfaction, and since I am in the olfactory receptor research space, I just want to put my two cents ou…