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Science and Culture: Could a bacterium successfully shepherd a message through the apocalypse?

Gayathri Vaidyanathan
PNAS February 28, 2017 114 (9) 2094-2095; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1700249114
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vol. 114 no. 9 2094-2095
DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1700249114
PubMed: 
28246369

Published By: 
National Academy of Sciences
Print ISSN: 
0027-8424
Online ISSN: 
1091-6490
History: 
  • Published February 28, 2017.


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