BacterioFiles Micro Edition 150 - Morels Make Mycelial Motorways

This episode: Bacteria use fungal filaments like highways to swim through soil!

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Show notes:
Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

**Fecal transplants to treat infection could be given in pill form
**Deep-sea microbes feed crabs
**Combining photosynthesis and microbial fuel cells
**Your microbes could originate from the womb
**Virus combined with drug could treat cancer effectively

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 149 - Psychrobacter Survives Siberian Schisms

This episode: Cold-loving bacteria can repair surprising amounts of DNA damage even sub-zero temperatures!

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

Other interesting stories:

**Bacteria can be made to do cool things
**Figuring out how fecal transplants help restore gut microbiome balance
**Amazing and important microscopic images
**Single-celled algae help researchers understand the brain
**Some bacteria help crops grow better in salty soil

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 148 - Engineered Escherichia Enzyme Enhances Environmentalism

This episode: Engineered bacteria could help capture CO₂ and convert it into a solid form for storage!

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Show notes:
Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

**Even some adults could benefit from rural microbes
**-20ºC Antarctic microbes exchange genetic material relatively frequently
**Revamping glycolysis for biofuels so less carbon is lost as CO₂
**Engineered bacteria could help clean up water and soil
**Bacterial battery could recover energy from marine dead zones (paper)

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 147 - Clostridium Conquers Colleagues

This episode: Non-pathogenic Clostridium difficile strains can protect hamsters against their disease-causing bacterial siblings!

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

Other interesting stories:

**Forensics could observe state of bacterial activity to determine when someone died
**Microbes could be a partial living history of other forms of life
**Viruses enter and affect mammalian cells but don't cause harm
**Step toward helping more plants cooperate with nitrogen-fixing bacteria
**Engineering E. coli to produce straight-up gasoline

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 146 - Engineered Escherichia Eliminates Enemies

This episode: Scientists engineered E. coli to seek and destroy pathogens!

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

Other interesting stories:

**Soil microbes are very important for plants
**Bacteria tolerate fluoride by having really weird transporter proteins
**Bacteria-produced silk could shield medicinal proteins until they're needed
**Researchers discover very small marine microbe
**Pest insects team up with bacteria to avoid plant defenses (paper)

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 145 - Clostridium Converts Cortisol

This episode: Gut bacteria may convert cortisol into important human hormones!

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Show notes:
News item/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

**Frozen microbes could possibly survive a fall from outer space to Earth
**Infecting fungus creates zombie ants
**Importance of bacteria recognized even 120 years ago
**Using microbes to generate electricity by breaking down wastewater
**Newly discovered eukaryotic microbe helps show what doesn't make multicellular organisms unique

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