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Starving E. coli Shuffle Their DNA Using Viruses and CRISPR — a Primitive Kind of Sex

Summary by Scientific Inquirer
ISTA researchers found starving E. coli use bacteriophages and CRISPR-Cas defences to shuffle DNA between cells at over 100 times the spontaneous background mutation rate.
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Starving E. coli Shuffle Their DNA Using Viruses and CRISPR — a Primitive Kind of Sex

ISTA researchers found starving E. coli use bacteriophages and CRISPR-Cas defences to shuffle DNA between cells at over 100 times the spontaneous background mutation rate.

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Scientific Inquirer broke the news on Monday, November 9, 2026.
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