Nels and Vincent discuss evolutionary evidence for an epidemic of coronavirus infection over 20,000 years ago in East Asia, and reconstruction of the membrane differences between bacteria and Archaea reveals unexpected differences in permeability.

Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello

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Ancient coronavirus epidemic in East Asia (Curr Biol)
Gene-culture coevolution and human evolutionary transition (Proc Roy Soc B)
Membrane permeability at the lipid divide (bioRxiv)
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