BacterioFiles 197 - Fucose Feeds Friendly Fighters

Fucose (or lack) on gut cells.
Pickard 2014 Fig 1

This episode: When sensing an infection, mice make sure to keep their gut bacteria well-fed. And it pays off!

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News item/News item 2/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

Microfluidic screening discovers that algae produce more biofuel under yellow light

Using bacterial immune system to modify bacterial behavior

Human parasite is helpful for the fly that carries it

Bacteria can survive dehydration by manipulating salt crystals

Studying day-to-day changes in gut microbe communities

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BacterioFiles 196 - Flagellin Facilitates Flu-shot Function

Antibodies after flu shot. Oh 2014, fig 2B

This episode: Bacteria are important for a good immune response to unadjuvanted influenza vaccines!

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

Other interesting stories:

Supermarket makes its own electricity from food waste

Including oncolytic virus in treatment could save limbs threatened by cancer

Engineered gut bacteria inhibit obesity in mice

Microbes in soil instead of chemicals could improve agriculture

Finding phages to treat Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections

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BacterioFiles 195 - CRISPR/Cas Cuts Cancer Causers

This episode: Bacterial antivirus system could treat chronic herpes virus infections!

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Journal Paper

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Studying bacteria that consume and produce electricity

Fungus living in rice seems like it evolved from rice pathogen (paper)

Bacteria growing with plants could help clean air in buildings (paper)

Understanding how Caulobacter tolerates high levels of uranium (paper)

Report about how viruses are more than pathogens

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BacterioFiles 194 - Squirrel Sequence Stops Similar Sickness

Thirteen-lined ground squirrel

This episode: Remnants of viral infection left behind in squirrels' genome may protect them from incoming viruses!

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Journal Paper

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Marine photosynthetic bacteria could be good, easy continuous biofuel producers

Immune system and gut bacteria have complex interactions

What happens to gut community when pathogens infect

Bacteria and fungi may lower their defenses when interacting (paper)

Parasite from cats could help immune system fight cancer

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BacterioFiles 193 - Milk Modifies Monkey Microbes

T_H17 levels in two groups
(Ardeshir Fig 3)

This episode: Being raised with their mother and breastmilk vs. bottle-fed in a nursery significantly affects macaque microbiomes and their immune system profile!

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Show notes:
News item/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

Figuring out which gut microbes correlate with susceptibility to C. difficile problems (paper)

Phage communities in mouth may be linked to dental health (paper)

Fecal transplant restores diverse gut community that looks like donor's (paper)

Modified E. coli could help weight loss by reducing appetite (paywall)

Bacterial symbionts in mosquitoes could prevent dengue transmission

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