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Engineering history with Asgard archaea of the kingdom Promethearchaeati

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Multiple histories converge in Masaru Nobu’s story of culturing an archaeon closely related to us eukaryotes.

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Fig. 1: The reactor used to culture P. syntrophicum MK-D1.

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Nobu, M.K. Engineering history with Asgard archaea of the kingdom Promethearchaeati. Nat Microbiol 9, 3086–3087 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-024-01866-9

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