Episode #1003

Item #1 Fiction
A recent analysis finds that mammal-like jaw anatomy evolved first in therapsids, at least 20 million years before the first cynodonts, which were mammalian ancestors.https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07971-3
Item #2 Science
Scientists have recently demonstrated that single bacterial genes can flip a portion of their genetic sequence so that they code for a different protein. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07970-4
Item #3 Science
A recent clinical trial shows that a single infusion with gene therapy was able to effectively treat hemophilia B for at least 15 months of follow up. https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2302982

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