191: By the pulp of their teeth

The TWiM team reveals the oldest human plague from 4,900 years ago in Sweden, and engineering E. coli to become an endosymbiont in yeast, modeling the evolution of mitochondria.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, Michael Schmidt, and Michele Swanson

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• Oldest human plague from 4,900 years ago (PNAS)
• Engineering yeast endosymbionts (PNAS)
• Letters read on TWiM 191
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