Reposted by Jen Herman 🌪️
The CPT's own @jasonjgill.bsky.social was interviewed in Wired magazine about a new class of retron-like reverse transcriptases reported by Anthropic last week. These enzymes were identified in our 2021 paper on the MarsHill-like jumbo phages infecting S. aureus.
www.wired.com/story/anthro...
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