BacterioFiles Episode 16

In this show, I report on four exciting stories: birthing method affecting babies' bacteria, soil microbes affecting forest ecology, endophytes producing useful compounds, and manipulating gut bacteria for health.

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Intro
Story 1
Story 2
Story 3
Story 4
Ending Comments

Show notes:
Story 1: News item 1/News item 2/Journal paper
Story 2: News item/Journal Paper
Story 3: Journal Paper
Story 4: News article/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:
**How the oil spill threatens researchers' plans

**About enzymes for making biofuels

**Article about yeast

**On viral cancer therapy

**Bacterial gene restores sight to blind

**Will oil-eating bacteria cause problems?

**Virus used to control beetle pest

**Computers communicating like bacteria

**Bacteria that can do useful things for the environment

**Hot Alaskan oilfields have oil-degrading microbes

**Bacterial diversity in a basic salty lake

**Using photosynthesizers to make useful chemicals

**Hydrogen gas production by a cyanobacterium

**Analysis of nose and throat bacteria/another

**How algae in the ocean get nitrogen

**Using viruses to study the brain

**Add nutrients to ocean to increase carbon storage

**Electricity-producing bacteria improved with light

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