Short Break

I'm putting the show on pause again for a short while, because I'm too busy with other things for the moment. But it'll be back soon with more exciting stories!

BacterioFiles Special - Novozymes' Nathan Cude

This episode: An interview with Dr. Nathan Cude, team leader at Novozymes BioAg Alliance, working on finding and bringing to market soil microbes that can help crops grow!

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Show notes:
Novozymes
BioAg Alliance
Nathan Cude on Twitter and LinkedIn

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BacterioFiles 289 - Prehistoric Paired Prokaryote Partners

This episode: Great apes' specific gut microbe communities have been with us for millions of years!

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Show notes:
News item 1/News item 2

Journal Paper:
Moeller AH, Caro-Quintero A, Mjungu D, Georgiev AV, Lonsdorf EV, Muller MN, Pusey AE, Peeters M, Hahn BH, Ochman H. 2016. Cospeciation of gut microbiota with hominids. Science 353:380–382.

Other interesting stories:

Gut bacteria could help treat kidney disease (paper)

Virus that infects viruses acts as genomic antiviral defense for host

Microbial archaeology studies bacteria resistant to copper in medieval foundry (paper)

Bacteria embedded in porous stones make good water filters (paper)

Computers can use microbes to estimate time of death

Post questions or comments here or email to bacteriofiles@gmail.com. Thanks for listening!

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