BacterioFiles 227 - Microbe Menaces Meningitis

This episode: Colonizing ourselves with friendly bacteria could drive out more risky ones, such as those that cause meningitis!

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Show notes:
News item/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

Bacterial vapors inhibit deadly plant pathogen (paper)

Finding phages to fight tomato disease (paper)

Immune system is important for maintaining gut community health

Even the same species can have diversity in the gut

Using bacterial power to generate clean water and electricity

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BacterioFiles 226 - Deep Dwellers Diversify

This episode: Archaea living in the deep ocean (and their viruses) have clever ways to maintain diversity and adaptability!

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Show notes:
News item/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

Super-slow-growing bacteria may evolve without reproducing

Human gut bacterium is especially able to digest yeast cell walls

Soil fungi can convert uranium to more recoverable insoluble form (paper)

Viruses may have helped human brain develop through history

Accessory genes make each bacterial strain unique

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BacterioFiles 225 - Implanting Internal Invader Immunity

This episode: Don't have immunity? Create your own! Scientists engineer cells to destroy their HIV infections using the bacterial immune system!

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Show notes:
Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

Insect bacteria produce small RNAs to communicate with hosts (paper)

Yeast can make lots of useful things

Engineering E. coli to better tolerate biofuels it produces (paper)

Pathogens can resist phage infection, but often at a cost (paper)

Microbes can survive on space vessels and cause problems away from Earth

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BacterioFiles 224 - Super Small Cells

Ultramicrobacterium.
Fig 3 Luef et al 2015

This episode: Scientists discover what seem to be ultra-small bacteria, possibly smaller than the theoretical minimum size!

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

Other interesting stories:

Bacteria could produce good biofuels from renewable resources (paper)

Studying quorum sensing by 3D-printing bacterial biofilms (paper)

Marine algae could be good source of nutrients alternative to fish oil

Caterpillar mind-control virus seems to manipulate response to light

9 cool things about microbes

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BacterioFiles 223 - Fecal Fusions Forecast Fatness

This episode: Sampling microbial populations in sewage from cities could reveal differences in the human populations, such as prevalence of obesity!

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Show notes:
News item/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

Bacterial communities could be evidence about sexual crimes

Bacteria around plants could fight plant diseases (paper)

Microbes can greatly affect mouse gut's protective mucus layer

Cyanobacteria could survive on Mars and produce breathable oxygen

Garbage in Yellowstone permitted hot spring microbial rainbow

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