Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, and Michele Swanson. 

Vincent, Elio, and Michele discuss how to synthesize a designer yeast chromosome, and deciphering the genetic changes path that allowed Yersinia pestis to be transmitted by fleas.

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