BacterioFiles 231 - Creating Cancer-Killing Cultures

This episode: Engineering Salmonella strains that kill cancer cells but leave healthy ones alone!

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News item/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

Rocks floating on a lake house interesting microbes (paper)

Aerobiology - how bacteria affect the weather

Modified gut bacteria could control populations of insect disease vectors (paper)

Gut microbiome's health effects are not so simple

Some traits could be inherited via bacteria

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BacterioFiles 230 - Plant Prokaryotes Promote Protein Production

This episode: Bacteria in and around plants can help fertilizer them, even in non-legume plants!

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News item/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

Figuring out what microbes live (or lived) in NYC's subway

Duckweed could be good microbe food for making biofuels (paper)

Fungal endophytes help barley grow more sustainably

Flower wallpaper made of vaccinated cells

Plant-raping bacteria could help genetically modify yeast (paper)

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BacterioFiles 229 - Spore-formers Stimulate Serotonin

This episode: Bacteria in mouse guts control the production of serotonin, an important neurotransmitter!

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News item/Journal Paper

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Nitrogen-fixing bacterium could produce ethanol with fewer inputs

After fecal transplant from overweight donor, recipient became obese

Nitrogen-fixing bacteria partner with tiny animals in ocean (paper)

Monitoring microbiome could help diagnose type 1 diabetes

Breastfeeding could help prepare infant gut community for solid foods

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BacterioFiles 228 - Bacteria Beat Bat Blight

Inhibition assay, bacterial colonies
on fungal lawn. Hoyt et al. 2015

This episode: Bacteria isolated from bats' skin inhibits the growth of bat-killing fungus!

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News item/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

Bacteria could produce useful emulsifiers (paper)

Fast-growing cyanobacteria could be good for producing things

Making yeast produce more useful proteins such as insulin

Microalga could be good biofuel oil producer

Microbes might've helped create large gold deposits

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BacterioFiles 227 - Microbe Menaces Meningitis

This episode: Colonizing ourselves with friendly bacteria could drive out more risky ones, such as those that cause meningitis!

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News item/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

Bacterial vapors inhibit deadly plant pathogen (paper)

Finding phages to fight tomato disease (paper)

Immune system is important for maintaining gut community health

Even the same species can have diversity in the gut

Using bacterial power to generate clean water and electricity

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BacterioFiles 226 - Deep Dwellers Diversify

This episode: Archaea living in the deep ocean (and their viruses) have clever ways to maintain diversity and adaptability!

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News item/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

Super-slow-growing bacteria may evolve without reproducing

Human gut bacterium is especially able to digest yeast cell walls

Soil fungi can convert uranium to more recoverable insoluble form (paper)

Viruses may have helped human brain develop through history

Accessory genes make each bacterial strain unique

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BacterioFiles 225 - Implanting Internal Invader Immunity

This episode: Don't have immunity? Create your own! Scientists engineer cells to destroy their HIV infections using the bacterial immune system!

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Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

Insect bacteria produce small RNAs to communicate with hosts (paper)

Yeast can make lots of useful things

Engineering E. coli to better tolerate biofuels it produces (paper)

Pathogens can resist phage infection, but often at a cost (paper)

Microbes can survive on space vessels and cause problems away from Earth

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