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A coveted Asgard archaeon rode 2,500 kilometres to Texas in the back of an SUV
Asgard archaea have been known since 2015 from DNA in North Atlantic sediment, and only six stable cultures have reached the literature. Growing them takes years, so one unpublished culture travelled from Montana to Texas by car.
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