BacterioFiles Micro Edition 19 - Meager Meals Maintain Microbes

This episode: Archaea subsist on extremely little.

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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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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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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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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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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 15 - Terrific Tiny Transplants

This episode: Potentially useful bacterial transplants!

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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

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 14 - Bacteria Bind Bankrupt Bills Better

This episode: The relation between economy and bacteria!

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Show notes:
News story/Journal paper

Other interesting stories:
**How we could use bacteria to make Mars habitable
**We share space with millions of bacteria
**Using bacteria to reduce toxic compounds when processing potatoes and coffee
**Bacterial immune system enzyme identified
**Bacteria used at Oktoberfest to keep bad smells away

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 13 - Formidable Filaments Found

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This episode: Discovery of (rather pretty) giant archaea!
Image credit: Muller et al.

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Show notes:
Journal paper

Other interesting stories:
**Engineering E. coli to produce biodiesel

**Article about microbes helping the environment

**Microbes could prevent toxic blooms
**Discovering how bacteria break down plant fibers
**Fungi could degrade historical film archives

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