Plasmid, Virus or Other? DNA 'Borgs' Blur Boundaries. | Quanta Magazine
When the microbiologist Jillian Banfield and her colleagues started combing through samples of mud from wetland environments three years ago, they had a specific goal in mind: to recover and analyze fragments of DNA from large bacteria-killing viruses. And they did. But they also found something unexpected.
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Alan Jo
