BacterioFiles 191 - Coats Compose Current Conduits

Nanowires forming (Pirbadian, Fig 5)

This episode: Bacterial nanowires are made of the cells' outer membranes!

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Algae in low light can switch quantum light harvesting on or off

Fecal transplants continue to seem like a great treatment for gut community imbalance

Good gut microbe community seems important for survival after stem cell transplant

Microbes on ocean plastic could have good and bad effects

Bacteria could help inhibit pathogens of bees and bats

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BacterioFiles 190 - Bacteriophages Bust Biofilm Beacons

This episode: Engineered phages can both kill bacteria and disrupt their communications!

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Tiny microbes affect temperature by how much sunlight is reflected off ice

Bacteria could help clean uranium from aquifers

Fungus can kill poison ivy

Differences found in gut microbes between children with or without diabetes

Using viruses to understand tiny physics better

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BacterioFiles 189 - Saliva Slows Sprout Supporter

This episode: Fungi living in grasses make toxic compounds to defend against herbivores, but some animals can overcome this defense with their saliva!

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Early-life exposure to microbes seems linked to less asthma

Bacteria help tomato plants tolerate salt (paper)

Bacteria infecting mosquitoes could control malaria transmission

Phages are increasingly of interest for treating infections

Feeding healthy mice phage causes slight immune response and nothing else (paper)

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BacterioFiles 188 - Rat Residents Relieve Resin Roughness

Woodrat in front of creosote bush

This episode: Gut bacteria in Mojave desert woodrats help them detoxify and eat toxic creosote bushes!

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It can be hard to recover a good microbiota

Aphids' bacterial symbionts can activate plant defenses against aphids

Probiotic bacterial strain could protect against cadmium toxicity (paper)

Predatory bacteria can prey on pathogens (paper)

Microbes can prevent some species from hybridizing

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BacterioFiles 187 - Bacteria Bolster Bedbug Biotin

This episode: Some Wolbachia bacteria produce vitamin B7 for their insect hosts!

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Play classic video games with live microbes

Bacterial polysaccharides could make better low-fat products

Getting rid of H. pylori could be associated with obesity

Bacteria fight against bad fungal infection of rice

Converting plant parts directly into ethanol

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BacterioFiles 186 - Matched Mice, Mismatched Microbiota

This episode: Gut microbes can be different even in genetically identical mice in similar conditions!

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Bacteria could make building materials using less energy

Even in placenta bacteria can be important for health

Seeing if algae (and thus, plants) can survive in space

Bacteria can make plastic out of methane gas

Some fungi could adapt to Mars-like conditions within a few days (paper)

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BacterioFiles 185 - Bacteroid Builds Beta-lactam Buffer

This episode: Antibiotic-degrading probiotics protect mouse gut microbes from hostile pathogen takeover after antibiotic treatment!

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Insect bacterial symbionts can pass to offspring through sperm (paper)

Studying human history thru microbes in fossilized feces

Fungi can clean up composting-resistant pollutants in soil

Microbes could make useful product from industrial wastewater

Bacterial toxin could be used to target colon cancer cells

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