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Awesome article. Question: Would we have figured out the “Tricks of the Mycoplasm trade” had we not tried to deduce the minimal requirements. It seems to me that this is extremely useful science.
Thanks. No doubt it’s fascinating science. As with much (most?) research, it has turned out to be useful and interesting for different reasons than the ones that drove people to study it in the first place. I’m okay with that result and I’m okay with renewing the grants (which have obviously produced important work), but I’m also okay with noting that if the goal is synthetic life, this may have been a wrong turn.
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