Microbe Discovered With One of The Smallest Genomes on Record, Pushing The Bounds of What It Means to Be Alive
Science Alert · 13 Oct 2026

Microbe Discovered With One of The Smallest Genomes on Record, Pushing The Bounds of What It Means to Be Alive

A tiny microbe detected inside a marine plankton has one of the smallest genomes of any organism ever found, and it's really putting biologists' definition of 'life' to the test.


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