BacterioFiles Micro Edition 69 - Plants' Prokaryotic Partners

This episode: Plants open up their roots to let bacteria in!

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Show notes:
News item/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:
**Diet and its effects on gut bacteria (paper)
**Electrobacteria could produce good biofuel from carbon dioxide
**Viruses might have once been cells
**Using bacteria to prevent soil erosion
**Bacteria can change the whole world's climate
**Swarming bacteria move in a coordinated manner (paper)
**Gut bacteria could affect whether some drugs work or not

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 68 - Crustacean Calorie Caretaker

Credit: Oregon State University

This episode: Newly-discovered underwater crab farms its own bacterial food!

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Show notes:
News item 1/News item 2/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:
**There is probably (microbial) life on Mars--that we put there (by accident)
**Cyanobacterial viruses are photosynthetic, sorta (paper)
**Freshwater springs in the Dead Sea allow interesting microbial growth
**Bacteria and yeast engineered to produce a new kind of diesel-like biofuel
**Using soil bacteria to kill cancer
**Heat-loving fungi could be good at making biofuels
**Bacteria could help clean up arsenic and make better cropland

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 67 - Healthful Helper Helices

This episode: Probiotic DNA can be good for our health!

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Show notes:
Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:
**Bacteria could help defend coral against stress
**Researchers replace half of a yeast's chromosome with synthetic DNA
**Beetles use antibiotics to keep offsprings' food safe
**Virus could be used to treat cancers
**Root bacteria influence growth of plants (paper)
**Bacteria engineered to be able to produce useful unnatural proteins
**Fungi could make beech trees more colorful and pretty (paper)

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 66 - Microbe-Mycelium Mutualism

This episode: Bacteria and fungi work together to explore new territory!

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Show notes:
News article/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:
**Diet affects viruses in gut a lot too
**Diet may be able to treat gut disorders by manipulating bacteria
**Soil bacteria may help treat cancer
**Desert bacteria coordinate with the daily water cycle
**Fungus makes gold nanoparticles which may kill cancer (paper)
**Bacteria can protect plants against fungi and insects
**Some amount of microbe exposure may keep us healthy

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 65 - Superfluous Cells Stop Sniffles

This episode: Exposure to many bacteria early in life seems to prevent allergies!

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Show notes:
News article/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:
**Bacteria could produce biofuel from old newspaper
**Scientists rewrite E. coli genetic code to make certain kinds of protein easily
**Virus related to rabies could kill cancer in children
**Probiotics seem to affect behavior (in mice, at least)
**Yeast converting seaweed to biofuel quickly
**Figuring out which parts of bacterial genome are essential
**Panda gut bacteria may be good for making biofuels

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