BacterioFiles Micro Edition 144 - Copper Chelator Calms Quicksilver

This episode: Bacteria could reduce mercury's toxicity in their environment!

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Show notes:
Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

**Symbiotic bacteria help plant pests trick their host plants
**Finding ancient organisms in Antarctic ice
**Immune system regulates skin microbe communities (paper)
**Panda gut microbes could be pretty good for cellulose biofuel production
**Cold doesn't seem to prevent microbes from eating polluting hydrocarbons

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 143 - Parasites Prevent Paired Pestilences

This episode: Gut parasites may fight each other to infect!

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Show notes:
News item/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

**Fungus-bacterium community does well producing biofuel from cellulose (paper)
**Improving microbes' ability to generate electricity
**Cyanobacterium can produce 5 different biofuels
**Sequencing-based community sampling may overestimate microbial diversity (paper)
**Bacteria could help harvest biofuel algae by clumping them together (paper)

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 142 - Diversity Determines Dimensions

This episode: Higher gut bacterial diversity is correlated with lower obesity and related problems!

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

Other interesting stories:

**Gut bacteria may influence weight gain when quitting smoking
**Probiotic can inhibit pathogen motility (paper)
**Microbes deep under sea floor divide every 10,000 years
**Searching sea microbes for promising new chemicals
**Stick bug gut bacteria seem to make good antibacterial compounds

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