BacterioFiles 164 - Sponge Symbionts Synthesize Stuff

This episode: Bacteria symbiotic with sea sponges make many potentially useful compounds!

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News item/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

Pollutants may kill off certain important microbes in soils

Certain gut microbes help break down dietary fiber

Engineered yeast produces impressive amounts of lipids for biodiesel

Infection with Salmonella helped mice's asthma

Searching marine microbial genomes for good drugs

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BacterioFiles 163 - Pseudomyrmex Sidekicks Stop Sprout Sickness

This episode: Ants teaming with bacteria help defend plants from bacterial pathogens!

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News item/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

**Virus modified to infect and destroy only cancer
**Compounds from ocean bacteria could inhibit pathogens without inducing resistance
**Dog-related microbes could affect the gut microbe in ways that protect against allergies (paper)
**Stomach bacteria are most peaceful in humans they've co-evolved with
**Bacteria in toxic environment could be useful converting toxic elements into useful electronic components

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BacterioFiles 162 - Desert Dwellers Densify Dunes

This episode: Spraying cyanobacteria could turn deserts into useful land!

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News item/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

**How multicellular cyanobacteria communicates between cells (paper)
**Microscopic protozoa could be used instead of animals for cosmetic testing
**Slime molds are good like computers at finding best routes to different places
**Bacteria can divide into two distinct cells with different behaviors
**Students program bacteria to behave in predictable ways in given situations

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BacterioFiles 161 - Permafrost Produces Perceptible Pithos

This episode: The largest virus so far has been discovered in ancient Siberian permafrost!

B: Pitho particles.
C: honeycomb cork at one end.
D: Other end.

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News item/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

**Plants seem to stimulate bacteria to degrade pollutants (paper)
**Gene therapy with virus could help repair brain damages
**Phages could soon be important for treating bacterial infections
**Certain portions of gut microbiome, and inflammation, associated with colon cancer (paper) (TWiM 71)
**Yogurt probiotics might not change gut community in major ways

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