The Quanta Podcast

Audio Edition: A Cell So Minimal That It Challenges Definitions of Life

August 27, 2026·16 min
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The newly described microbe represents a world of parasitic, intercellular biodiversity only beginning to be revealed by genome sequencing. The article A Cell So Minimal That It Challenges Definitions of Life first appeared on Quanta Magazine.

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