This episode: Bacteria unlike any other known life form!
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Show notes:
News items: 1/2/3/4/Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
**Finding good microbial enzymes for biofuel production
**Surprising Arctic soil ecology
**Developing sunscreen from bacteria
**Discovery of heat-tolerant cyanobacteria that collect iron
**Searching for oil-eating microbes
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Monday, December 6, 2010
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
BacterioFiles Micro Edition 20 - Archaea Advanced Apart
This episode: Our archaeal ancestors may have been more important to us than bacterial!
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Show notes:
Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
**About the bacterial immune system
**Company patents microbe that makes and secretes biofuels from sunlight
**Bacteria ate up gases before oil in gulf
**A pickle spoilage bacterium could help clean up environment
**Heat-loving microbes in Arctic could hibernate for 100 million years
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Download Episode (3.7 MB, 4 minutes)
Show notes:
Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
**About the bacterial immune system
**Company patents microbe that makes and secretes biofuels from sunlight
**Bacteria ate up gases before oil in gulf
**A pickle spoilage bacterium could help clean up environment
**Heat-loving microbes in Arctic could hibernate for 100 million years
Post questions or comments here or email to bacteriofiles at gmail dot com. Thanks for listening!
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Wednesday, November 10, 2010
BacterioFiles Micro Edition 19 - Meager Meals Maintain Microbes
This episode: Archaea subsist on extremely little.
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Show notes:
News item 1/News item 2/Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
**Probiotics may have some effect on tooth decay
**Repeated antibiotic treatment may hurt helpful gut bacteria
**Helpful fungi may help crop growth, depending on farm management
**Yeast study shows that sometimes selfishness is good for the group
**Mathematical models for bacterial growth
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Download Episode (2.7 MB, 3 minutes)
Show notes:
News item 1/News item 2/Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
**Probiotics may have some effect on tooth decay
**Repeated antibiotic treatment may hurt helpful gut bacteria
**Helpful fungi may help crop growth, depending on farm management
**Yeast study shows that sometimes selfishness is good for the group
**Mathematical models for bacterial growth
Post questions or comments here or email to bacteriofiles at gmail dot com. Thanks for listening!
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This show features music from Mevio's podsafe Music Alley.
Monday, November 1, 2010
BacterioFiles Micro Edition 18 - Predators Provoke Prokaryote Prey
This episode: Bacteria smell predators and cluster together for protection!
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Show notes:
Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
**Bacteria as part of self-healing concrete
**Making sunscreen from bacteria
**How old are viruses?
**Paper on how probiotics may work
**Insect-borne plant pathogen may eat its insect carrier
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Download Episode (2.5 MB, 2.75 minutes)
Show notes:
Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
**Bacteria as part of self-healing concrete
**Making sunscreen from bacteria
**How old are viruses?
**Paper on how probiotics may work
**Insect-borne plant pathogen may eat its insect carrier
Post questions or comments here or email to bacteriofiles at gmail dot com. Thanks for listening!
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This show features music from Mevio's podsafe Music Alley.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
BacterioFiles Micro Edition 17 - Radical Radiation Resistance
This episode: Bacteria super-resistant to radiation: here's how!
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Show notes:
News story 1/News story 2/Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
**Thrifty bacteria spend less on expensive proteins in hard times
**Using cold virus to treat cancer
**Paper about microbial enhancement of oil recovery
**Probiotics could prevent colic in babies
**Cannibal bacteria could be source of new antibiotics
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This show features music from Mevio's podsafe Music Alley.
Download Episode (3.8 MB, 4 minutes)
Show notes:
News story 1/News story 2/Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
**Thrifty bacteria spend less on expensive proteins in hard times
**Using cold virus to treat cancer
**Paper about microbial enhancement of oil recovery
**Probiotics could prevent colic in babies
**Cannibal bacteria could be source of new antibiotics
Post questions or comments here or email to bacteriofiles at gmail dot com. Thanks for listening!
Subscribe at iTunes, check out the show at Twitter, MicrobeWorld, or SciencePodcasters.org
This show features music from Mevio's podsafe Music Alley.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
BacterioFiles Micro Edition 16 - Capturing Costly Catalysts
This episode: Using bacteria to recover precious metals like palladium!
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Show notes:
News story/Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
**Virus could fight malaria without resistance to it evolving
**A while ago, microbes made life possible in barren oceans
**The oil spill might actually be degraded quickly, thanks to newly discovered microbes
**Using nanotech to manipulate light to help algae grow to produce biofuels
**Giving fungus sunscreen to help it fight crop-eating insects
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This show features music from Mevio's podsafe Music Alley.
Download Episode (2 MB, 2.25 minutes)
Show notes:
News story/Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
**Virus could fight malaria without resistance to it evolving
**A while ago, microbes made life possible in barren oceans
**The oil spill might actually be degraded quickly, thanks to newly discovered microbes
**Using nanotech to manipulate light to help algae grow to produce biofuels
**Giving fungus sunscreen to help it fight crop-eating insects
Post questions or comments here or email to bacteriofiles at gmail dot com. Thanks for listening!
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This show features music from Mevio's podsafe Music Alley.
Sunday, October 10, 2010
BacterioFiles Micro Edition 15 - Terrific Tiny Transplants
This episode: Potentially useful bacterial transplants!
Download Episode (4 MB, 4.25 minutes)
Show notes:
News story/Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
**Giving yeast plant-digesting genes
**Using dog droppings to light dog park
**Microbes can cause gas explosions
**Aphids have modified their immune system to accommodate microbial symbiotes
**Paper on gut microbes of the elderly
Post questions or comments here or email to bacteriofiles at gmail dot com. Thanks for listening!
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This show features music from Mevio's podsafe Music Alley.
Download Episode (4 MB, 4.25 minutes)
Show notes:
News story/Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
**Giving yeast plant-digesting genes
**Using dog droppings to light dog park
**Microbes can cause gas explosions
**Aphids have modified their immune system to accommodate microbial symbiotes
**Paper on gut microbes of the elderly
Post questions or comments here or email to bacteriofiles at gmail dot com. Thanks for listening!
Subscribe at iTunes, check out the show at Twitter, MicrobeWorld, or SciencePodcasters.org
This show features music from Mevio's podsafe Music Alley.
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