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Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about a strange bacterial vampire
Links:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.02.651781v1.full.pdf
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(26)01251-0
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#archaea #bacteria #parasite
0:00 What is the biological limit for life?
1:00 Discovery of Candidatus Sukunaarchaeum mirabile
2:00 How this was found
3:00 Why this organism is strange
5:30 Parasite or what?
6:40 Strange genes and proteins
8:20 Is this common?
9:25 Vampires?
10:20 Implications and why this is important 12:00 Conclusions
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