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Scientists Discover First Nitrogen-Fixing Organelle - Uni of Berkeley lab (newscenter.lbl.gov)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Some theoretical applications being floated around is splicing this new organelle into food crops in order to increase food growth efficiency and possibly lower rates of soil depletion.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

splicing whole ass organelle is very non-trivial

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

just put out a bottle of wine and some mood music, I'm sure they're splice themselves together