{
  "id": 14228487,
  "title": "Microbe Discovered With One of The Smallest Genomes on Record, Pushing The Bounds of What It Means to Be Alive",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/13/microbe-discovered-with-one-of-the-smallest-genomes-on-record-pushing",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-13T15:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "ScienceAlert",
    "slug": "sciencealert",
    "url": "https://www.sciencealert.com/microbe-discovered-with-one-of-the-smallest-genomes-on-record-pushing-the-bounds-of-what-it-means-to-be-alive"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Within this dinoflagellate plankton is a tiny microbe that acts more like a virus than a cell. (Takuro Nakayama/University of Tsukuba) What is an organism, anyway? Don't miss a story, subscribe here.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}