NASA Scientists Insert a 500-million-year-old Gene in Modern Bacteria

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NASA Scientists Insert a 500-million-year-old Gene in Modern Bacteria

It’s a project 500 million years in the making: Using a process called paleo-experimental evolution, Georgia Tech researchers have resurrected a 500-million-year-old gene from bacteria and inserted it into modern-day Escherichia coli(E. coli) bacteria. This bacterium has now been growing for more than 1,000 generations, giving the scientists a front row seat to observe evolution in action.
“This is as close as we can get to rewinding and replaying the molecular tape of life,” said scientist Betül Kaçar, a NASA astrobiology postdoctoral fellow in Georgia Tech’s NASA Center for Ribosomal Origins and Evolution. “The ability to observe an ancient gene in a modern organism as it evolves within a modern cell allows us to see whether the evolutionary trajectory once taken will repeat itself or whether a life will adapt following a different path.”

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[lestat1116]

thats kinda scary.

[naxi85]

mutation - intriguing and scary.

[takas bahay]

NASA Scientists Insert a 500-million-year-old Gene in Modern Bacteria

It’s a project 500 million years in the making: Using a process called paleo-experimental evolution, Georgia Tech researchers have resurrected a 500-million-year-old gene from bacteria and inserted it into modern-day Escherichia coli(E. coli) bacteria. This bacterium has now been growing for more than 1,000 generations, giving the scientists a front row seat to observe evolution in action.
“This is as close as we can get to rewinding and replaying the molecular tape of life,” said scientist Betül Kaçar, a NASA astrobiology postdoctoral fellow in Georgia Tech’s NASA Center for Ribosomal Origins and Evolution. “The ability to observe an ancient gene in a modern organism as it evolves within a modern cell allows us to see whether the evolutionary trajectory once taken will repeat itself or whether a life will adapt following a different path.”

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nondota gud ani....sa ngadto2x maytag mu evolve ni ug ZERG or PROTOS like beings.

[jangska]

kuyawa ana uy. sus grabeha na jud.. di naman pud ta ka abot sa result ani.ahaha.

[jhggz1989]

chuya ane gud..

[b1 huck]

scary but WOoooooOW!

[anoisim]

kuyawa da....

[Code Talker]

I hope wla pandemic mahitabo from this.

[dustin]

dili na evolution uy!! crossbreed tawag ani....