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Laboraverum News, 2024-06-18: strange bacteria create a completely new gene when infected with a virus
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Surprising facts have been discovered about Klebsiella pneumoniae: its cytoplasm contains a seemingly useless reverse transcriptase enzyme and equally useless tiny pieces of RNA, and these useless structures suddenly begin to interact in the event of a viral attack on the bacterium. As a result of their interaction, the bacterium synthesizes a gene. That's right, no mistake, the bacterium synthesizes a completely new gene out of nothing. This gene produces a protective protein.
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