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TWiV rebuts a recent opinion piece that falsely claims that the COVID-19 pandemic began in a lab (it began in Nature), followed by a discussion of Paride bacteriophage, which has the unusual property of being able to kill dormant, antibiotic-tolerant cells by direct lytic replication.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, Brianne Barker, and Jolene Ramsey
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