A remarkable bacterium can survive extraordinary doses of ionizing radiation that shatter its genome into thousands of pieces. How does it accurately reassemble these DNA fragments into an intact genome?
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Lovett, S. Resurrecting a broken genome. Nature 443, 517–519 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/443517b
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