Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/MulticellularBacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MulticellularBacteria</span></a> Evolve Defenses that Resemble the Immune System <a href="https://www.the-scientist.com/multicellular-bacteria-evolve-defenses-that-resemble-the-immune-system-71807" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">the-scientist.com/multicellula</span><span class="invisible">r-bacteria-evolve-defenses-that-resemble-the-immune-system-71807</span></a> </p><p>Targeted hypermutation of putative antigen sensors in multicellular bacteria <a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2316469121" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.</span><span class="invisible">2316469121</span></a> </p><p>"the team chose pink berries, which are millimeter sized aggregates of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/bacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bacteria</span></a> living on the floor of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/SaltMarshes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SaltMarshes</span></a> in <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/WoodsHole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WoodsHole</span></a>, <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Massachusetts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Massachusetts</span></a> that tend to evolve slowly... they’re wild, but they’re not so ephemeral and changing that we can’t ask mechanistic questions"</p>