309 - What is life and what is memory?

All Around Science by Bobby Frankenberger

Aug 31, 202642:51Science & Medicine

On today’s episode: Life’s Last Universal Common Ancestor might not have been fully alive. Scientists wiped the memory of a bunch of lab mice… and they weren’t even EVIL scientists! All that and more today on All Around...

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