Awesome Microbe Video, and Virus Podcast

Watch Man-Controlled Bacteria Build A Nanoscale Pyramid



Here's a link to an article on it.
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Also, if you want to listen to an incredibly interesting podcast about viruses, go here:

Meet the Scientist: Curtis Suttle - It's a Virus World and We Just Live On It

It includes such tidbits as "If all the viruses in the ocean were placed end to end, they would stretch 7 million light years." Wow.
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Episode 9 comes out next weekend. Stay tuned.

BacterioFiles Episode 8

In this show, I report on four exciting stories: a plant-fungus symbiosis, making algae make medicine, fighting cancer with a virus, and making biofuels out of wood scraps.

(Image credit: Beth Rasala, UCSD)

Download Episode (8 MB, 9 minutes)

Download Sections:
Intro
Story 1
Story 2
Story 3
Story 4
Ending Comments

Show notes:
Story 1: News item
Story 2: News item/Journal paper
Story 3: News item 1/News item 2/Journal paper
Story 4: News item/Journal paper

Other interesting stories:
**A bleeding glacier

**Probiotic chewing gum

**A biochemicals production company

**Microbial Underground

**The search for quantum behavior in viruses

Post questions or comments here or email to bacteriofiles at gmail dot com. Thanks for listening!

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BacterioFiles Episode 7

In this show, I report on five exciting stories: a bacterial electric grid, engineering biofilms, beewolves that use antibiotics, tiny bacterial magnets, and microbial life's potential on Mars.

(Image credit: Johannes Kroiss and Martin Kaltenpoth, MPI for Chemical Ecology, Jena)

Download Episode (14 MB, 15 minutes)

Download Sections:
Intro
Story 1
Story 2
Story 3
Story 4
Story 5
Ending Comments

Show notes:
Story 1: News item 1/News item 2/Journal paper
Story 2: Journal paper
Story 3: News item/Journal paper
Story 4: News item/Journal paper
Story 5: News item/Pre-Journal paper

Other interesting stories:
**A marine species’ genome shows that it is missing many genes but it can fix a lot of nitrogen

**A company, Osprey Biotechnics, is doing many cool things with bacteria

**A survey of intestinal microbes suggests the more the better
**Extremophiles in Yellowstone
**Nanofactories monitor bacterial communication
**Engineering bacteria to produce bee silk
**Getting corn to work with bacteria to fix its own nitrogen
**As microscopes watch bacteria, a new micro-ear could listen to them
**Using soil fungi to compost waste plastics
**Traces of microbes found to have colonized meteor crater
**Using bacteria to prevent food spoilage
**How an ocean organism turns carbon dioxide into sugar
**Intestinal microbes influence obesity
**Organism switches between amoeba-like and swimming cell

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.