{
  "id": 9153010,
  "title": "Engineering Persistent and Rewritable Genetic Memory in Bacteria through Multiscale Plasmid Competition",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/22/engineering-persistent-and-rewritable-genetic-memory-in-bacteria",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-22T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.18.752696v1?rss=1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Genetic memory enables bacteria to record transient stimuli as persistent genetic states, providing a foundation for cellular information storage, sensing, and computation. Recombinase-based memories encode discrete states through rewritable DNA rearrangements, but these states can continue to evolve after stimulus removal as cells proliferate. Here, we show that the long-term stability of…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "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."
}