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Now displaying: September, 2016
Sep 27, 2016

Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Nicole King

Nicole joins Nels and Vincent to discuss the finding of her laboratory that multicellular development of choanoflagellates, the closest living relatives of animals, is regulated by bacterial lipids.

 

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Nels - I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong (Fresh Air interview)
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