BacterioFiles Episode 10

In this show, I report on four exciting stories: bacteria for digesting sushi; a giant virus that replicates itself, with help; microbes living in Mars-like lakes; and using viruses to generate hydrogen.

(Image credit: Russell Knightley/SPL)

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Intro
Story 1
Story 2
Story 3
Story 4
Ending Comments

Show notes:
Story 1: News items 1 2 3 4/Journal paper
Story 2: News item/Journal Paper 1/Journal paper 2
Story 3: News item/Journal paper
Story 4: News item/Journal paper

Other interesting stories:
**Bacteria for decomposing marine plastic pollution

**Algae that take bacterial supplements

**Bacteria that affect greenhouse gases

**Growing new species

**Cyanobacteria that secrete oil

**Slime mold-based computing

**Another hostile lake with microbes in it

**Extremophiles focused on survival

**Dinosaur-age microbial fossils

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BacterioFiles Episode 9

In this show, I report on four exciting stories: bacterial fingerprints, bacteria in space, fungi that swap genes, and bacteria fighting for resources.

(Image credit: Eshel Ben-Jacob)

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Intro
Story 1
Story 2
Story 3
Story 4
Ending Comments

Show notes:
Story 1: News item 1/News item 2/Journal paper
Story 2: Journal paper
Story 3: News item/Journal paper
Story 4: News item/Journal paper

Other interesting stories:
**Bacterial communications in the ocean affecting carbon movement

**Microvi Biotech using bacteria to clean up pollution

**How E. coli controls its swimming speed

**Dormant microbes still affect environment

**A virus that could treat arthritis

**Bacterial strain developed to make awesome sourdough bread
**Story about fermented kombucha tea
**Microbial inhabitants of the carnivorous pitcher plant
**Biotech company uses bacteria to make rubber for tires
**Circadian rhythms in bacteria
**Bacteria reveal new way to make oxygen

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Awesome Microbe Video, and Virus Podcast

Watch Man-Controlled Bacteria Build A Nanoscale Pyramid



Here's a link to an article on it.
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Also, if you want to listen to an incredibly interesting podcast about viruses, go here:

Meet the Scientist: Curtis Suttle - It's a Virus World and We Just Live On It

It includes such tidbits as "If all the viruses in the ocean were placed end to end, they would stretch 7 million light years." Wow.
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Episode 9 comes out next weekend. Stay tuned.

BacterioFiles Episode 8

In this show, I report on four exciting stories: a plant-fungus symbiosis, making algae make medicine, fighting cancer with a virus, and making biofuels out of wood scraps.

(Image credit: Beth Rasala, UCSD)

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Intro
Story 1
Story 2
Story 3
Story 4
Ending Comments

Show notes:
Story 1: News item
Story 2: News item/Journal paper
Story 3: News item 1/News item 2/Journal paper
Story 4: News item/Journal paper

Other interesting stories:
**A bleeding glacier

**Probiotic chewing gum

**A biochemicals production company

**Microbial Underground

**The search for quantum behavior in viruses

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BacterioFiles Episode 7

In this show, I report on five exciting stories: a bacterial electric grid, engineering biofilms, beewolves that use antibiotics, tiny bacterial magnets, and microbial life's potential on Mars.

(Image credit: Johannes Kroiss and Martin Kaltenpoth, MPI for Chemical Ecology, Jena)

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Intro
Story 1
Story 2
Story 3
Story 4
Story 5
Ending Comments

Show notes:
Story 1: News item 1/News item 2/Journal paper
Story 2: Journal paper
Story 3: News item/Journal paper
Story 4: News item/Journal paper
Story 5: News item/Pre-Journal paper

Other interesting stories:
**A marine species’ genome shows that it is missing many genes but it can fix a lot of nitrogen

**A company, Osprey Biotechnics, is doing many cool things with bacteria

**A survey of intestinal microbes suggests the more the better
**Extremophiles in Yellowstone
**Nanofactories monitor bacterial communication
**Engineering bacteria to produce bee silk
**Getting corn to work with bacteria to fix its own nitrogen
**As microscopes watch bacteria, a new micro-ear could listen to them
**Using soil fungi to compost waste plastics
**Traces of microbes found to have colonized meteor crater
**Using bacteria to prevent food spoilage
**How an ocean organism turns carbon dioxide into sugar
**Intestinal microbes influence obesity
**Organism switches between amoeba-like and swimming cell

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BacterioFiles Episode 6

In this show, I report on three exciting stories: a bullet-shaped virus that could fight cancer, engineering a new genetic code, and purifying water using bacteria.

(Image credit: UCLA)

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Intro
Story 1
Story 2
Story 3
Ending Comments

Show notes:
Story 1: News item/Journal paper
Story 2: News item/Journal paper
Story 3: News item/Press release

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BacterioFiles Episode 5

In this show, I report on four exciting stories: how rotifers do without sex, making diesel fuel using bacteria, a plant virus that tricks insects into spreading it, and how bacteria boost the immune system.

(Image courtesy of Kent Loeffler, Kathie T. Hodge and Chris Wilson; copyright Chris Wilson)

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Intro
Story 1
Story 2
Story 3
Story 4
Ending Comments

Show notes:
Story 1: News item/Journal paper/Science Friday video
Story 2: News item/Journal paper
Story 3: News item/Journal paper
Story 4: News item/Journal paper

Other interesting stories:
**Squid and its glowing symbiotic bacteria synchronize their activities

**About bacteria evolving complexity

**Engineering bacteria to produce silk

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