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Saturday, November 21, 2009 12:46 PM

Published 11/05/2009 by Discover Magazine


Podcast: An Embarrassment of Genomes

Many blog and Twitter readers may be acquainted with Jonathan Eisen, a biologist at UC Davis. In my latest podcast, I spend an hour chatting with Eisen about what you can learn by looking at the genomes of particularly weird microbesfrom radiation-resistant critters...

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