This episode: Bacteria grow on quartz stones in the driest hot place on Earth!
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Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
**Using Tim Hortons cups as fuel
**Microbes can produce expensive cancer drug cheaply
**Ocean bacteria produce a possible new cancer drug
**Microbes may share genes much more than thought
**Testing bacterial limits with high-altitude balloon
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Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Sunday, December 12, 2010
BacterioFiles Micro Edition 22 - Shocking Shewanella
This episode: Bacteria form electric nanowires!
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News items: 1/2/Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
**Some strains of Staph aureus weaken other bad strains
**Tiny sea creatures could affect course of hurricanes
**All about baking and bacteria
**Studying brewing bacteria
**Bacteria could inhibit fungal diseases
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News items: 1/2/Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
**Some strains of Staph aureus weaken other bad strains
**Tiny sea creatures could affect course of hurricanes
**All about baking and bacteria
**Studying brewing bacteria
**Bacteria could inhibit fungal diseases
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Monday, December 6, 2010
BacterioFiles Micro Edition 21 - Bacteria Belie Building Block Basics
This episode: Bacteria unlike any other known life form!
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News items: 1/2/3/4/Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
**Finding good microbial enzymes for biofuel production
**Surprising Arctic soil ecology
**Developing sunscreen from bacteria
**Discovery of heat-tolerant cyanobacteria that collect iron
**Searching for oil-eating microbes
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News items: 1/2/3/4/Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
**Finding good microbial enzymes for biofuel production
**Surprising Arctic soil ecology
**Developing sunscreen from bacteria
**Discovery of heat-tolerant cyanobacteria that collect iron
**Searching for oil-eating microbes
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Wednesday, December 1, 2010
BacterioFiles Micro Edition 20 - Archaea Advanced Apart
This episode: Our archaeal ancestors may have been more important to us than bacterial!
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Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
**About the bacterial immune system
**Company patents microbe that makes and secretes biofuels from sunlight
**Bacteria ate up gases before oil in gulf
**A pickle spoilage bacterium could help clean up environment
**Heat-loving microbes in Arctic could hibernate for 100 million years
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Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
**About the bacterial immune system
**Company patents microbe that makes and secretes biofuels from sunlight
**Bacteria ate up gases before oil in gulf
**A pickle spoilage bacterium could help clean up environment
**Heat-loving microbes in Arctic could hibernate for 100 million years
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Wednesday, November 10, 2010
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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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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Monday, November 1, 2010
BacterioFiles Micro Edition 18 - Predators Provoke Prokaryote Prey
This episode: Bacteria smell predators and cluster together for protection!
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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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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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Thursday, October 21, 2010
BacterioFiles Micro Edition 17 - Radical Radiation Resistance
This episode: Bacteria super-resistant to radiation: here's how!
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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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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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Thursday, October 14, 2010
BacterioFiles Micro Edition 16 - Capturing Costly Catalysts
This episode: Using bacteria to recover precious metals like palladium!
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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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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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Sunday, October 10, 2010
BacterioFiles Micro Edition 15 - Terrific Tiny Transplants
This episode: Potentially useful bacterial transplants!
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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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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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Thursday, September 30, 2010
BacterioFiles Micro Edition 14 - Bacteria Bind Bankrupt Bills Better
This episode: The relation between economy and bacteria!
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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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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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Thursday, September 23, 2010
BacterioFiles Micro Edition 13 - Formidable Filaments Found
Attention! BacterioFiles is now an official podcast of MicrobeWorld.org, a site run by the American Society for Microbiology. Check out the page at microbeworld.org/bacteriofiles.
This episode: Discovery of (rather pretty) giant archaea!
Image credit: Muller et al.
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Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
**Engineering E. coli to produce biodiesel
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Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
**Engineering E. coli to produce biodiesel
**Microbes could prevent toxic blooms
**Discovering how bacteria break down plant fibers
**Fungi could degrade historical film archives
**Discovering how bacteria break down plant fibers
**Fungi could degrade historical film archives
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010
BacterioFiles Micro Edition 12 - Bacteria Barricade Bone Bits
This episode: Bacteria help preserve fossils!
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News item/Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
**Paper on viruses in a very salty lake
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News item/Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
**Paper on viruses in a very salty lake
**An experiment forces bacteria to evolve
**Structure of adenovirus solved
**Gut microbe transplants discussed
**Structure of adenovirus solved
**Gut microbe transplants discussed
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Wednesday, September 8, 2010
BacterioFiles Micro Edition 11 - Fuels Fixed from Fumes
This episode: Making biofuels from fumes!
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News item/Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
**Oil plume resists degradation more than expected
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News item/Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
**Oil plume resists degradation more than expected
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Thursday, September 2, 2010
BacterioFiles Micro Edition 10 - Diet Defines Duodenal Dwellers
This episode: Diet might be the primary factor affecting gut microflora!
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News item 1/News item 2/Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
**Studying potential new probiotiocs
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News item 1/News item 2/Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
**Studying potential new probiotiocs
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Thursday, August 26, 2010
BacterioFiles Micro Edition 9 - Breastmilk Builds Babies' Bifidus
This episode: Breastmilk nourishes bacterial allies too!
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News item/Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
**More on gulf microbes
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News item/Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
**More on gulf microbes
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010
BacterioFiles Micro Edition 8 - Uncovering Undiscovered Unguents
This episode: Mining microbes for new compounds!
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News item/Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
**A yeast may help treat plant diseases
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News item/Journal paper
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**A yeast may help treat plant diseases
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Monday, August 23, 2010
This Week in Virology - 1% Scope?
Usually the podcast This Week in Virology is focused on viruses that make us sick (that's the tagline for the show, even), but this episode was somewhat unusual. It was live from the meeting of the American Society for Virology, with some special guests. The first half of the show, especially, was about how probably only 1% of viruses actually cause disease, and many of the remaining 99% may be beneficial. The focus was on plants, which was pretty interesting, but there was talk about animal viruses as well. I recommend it to any microbe lovers!
Thursday, August 19, 2010
BacterioFiles Micro Edition 7 - Ligneous Life Loves Little Lithotrophs
This episode: Trees grow their own good bacteria!
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News item/Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
**Microbes from deep ocean could have useful chemicals
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News item/Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
**Microbes from deep ocean could have useful chemicals
**Studying microbes in coldest place
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Friday, August 13, 2010
BacterioFiles Micro Edition 6 - Acid Animalcules Against AIDS
This episode: A preventative treatment for AIDS using live bacteria!
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News item/Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
**Community structure on microbial fuel cells may not be ideal
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News item/Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
**Community structure on microbial fuel cells may not be ideal
**Studying the origins of oil
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Sunday, August 8, 2010
BacterioFiles Micro Edition 5 - Small Supplements Sustain Soft Skin
This episode: Mother's probiotic treatment prevents disease in child!
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News item 1/News item 2/Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
**Paper about how gut microbes change in infant
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News item 1/News item 2/Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
**Paper about how gut microbes change in infant
**Story about why there are so many species in the ocean
**Viral remnants in human genome may keep us healthy
**Viral remnants in human genome may keep us healthy
**Bacteria help produce aluminum more cleanly
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Wednesday, August 4, 2010
BacterioFiles Micro Edition 4 - Splicing Spider Silk Sequences
This episode: Making spider silk with bacteria!
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News item/Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
**Company making biofuels for navy
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News item/Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
**Company making biofuels for navy
**Microbes flying from Sahara to Spain
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
BacterioFiles Micro Edition 3 - Icy Immunizations
This episode: Using cold-loving genes to make vaccines!
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News item/Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
**Bacterial diversity of a park in Spain
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News item/Journal paper
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**Bacterial diversity of a park in Spain
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Sunday, July 25, 2010
BacterioFiles 2 - Friendly Phages
This episode: Possibly friendly viruses in our intestines!
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News item/Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
**UK Squirrels threatened by human skin bacteria
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010
BacterioFiles Micro Edition 1 - Bacteria Boost Buzzing Babies
Trying something new: Micro Edition! One story, put out when there is an interesting new item. This episode: Bacteria protect fruit flies from parasites!
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News item 1/News item 2/Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
**Paper about making electricity
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News item 1/News item 2/Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
**Paper about making electricity
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Monday, July 12, 2010
How Microbes Defend and Define Us
Check out this article in the New York Times about the human microbiome. It has a lot of really interesting information, some of which I'm sorry I missed including in the podcast. It's written by Carl Zimmer, science writer and host of the very good Meet the Scientist podcast, so you know it's quality material.
Sunday, July 11, 2010
BacterioFiles Episode 16
In this show, I report on four exciting stories: birthing method affecting babies' bacteria, soil microbes affecting forest ecology, endophytes producing useful compounds, and manipulating gut bacteria for health.
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**Electricity-producing bacteria improved with light
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Sunday, June 27, 2010
BacterioFiles Episode 15
In this show, I report on three exciting stories: how viral invasions might've shaped human evolution, how bacteria are good for the immune system, and using viruses for medicine. Plus, biofuels special extravaganza!
Ending Comments
Show notes:
Story 1: News item/Journal paper
Story 2: News item/Journal Paper
Story 3: News item/Journal Paper
Biofuels Special: 1 2 3 4 5
Other interesting stories:
**Underground microbiology
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Story 1: News item/Journal paper
Story 2: News item/Journal Paper
Story 3: News item/Journal Paper
Biofuels Special: 1 2 3 4 5
Other interesting stories:
**Underground microbiology
**Oral bacteria could protect against respiratory infections
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Sunday, June 13, 2010
BacterioFiles Episode 14
In this show, I report on four exciting stories: microbial electrosynthesis, desert dust that affects ocean microbes, bacteria dividing unequally, and bacteria that can make you smarter.
(Image credit: Matthias Christen)
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Story 4: News article 1/News article 2
Other interesting stories:
**More about microbes and the BP oil spill
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Story 1: News item/Journal paper
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Other interesting stories:
**More about microbes and the BP oil spill
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Sunday, May 30, 2010
BacterioFiles Episode 13
In this show, I report on four exciting stories: bacteria made to clean up pesticides, new findings from microbial fossils, fighting bacteria with bacteria, and cells with synthetic genomes.
(Image credit: Tom Deerinck and Mark Ellisman of the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research at the University of California at San Diego)
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Story 4
Ending Comments
Show notes:
Story 1: News item 1/News item 2/Journal paper
Story 2: News item/Journal Paper
Story 3: News item/Journal Paper
Story 4: News articles 1 2 3 4 5 6 7/Journal Paper/Video
Other interesting stories:
**New method for studying metabolism of microbial communities
**Making bricks out of bacteria and sand
**Op-ed about the potential for life on Earth unrelated to the life we know
**Study about biocathodes for microbial fuel cells
**Yeast used for wine could be good for bioethanol too
**Article about bacteria and clean fuel production
**How adding good bacteria to soil could help wheat grow
**Soil microbes may "breathe" organic matter as well as minerals
**Cheese seems like a good carrier for probiotics for elderly
**Quick-evolving bacteria may be good for digestive health
**Human microbiome project stories: 1 2 3
**Bacteria share genes more with family
**Genes of bacteria that are good for plant growth
**Gut bacteria of tsetse fly could help prevent sleeping sickness
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Sunday, May 16, 2010
BacterioFiles Episode 12
In this show, I report on four exciting stories: interesting organisms found living in acid, purple bacteria's efficiency in capturing light, a cocaine overdose treatment from bacteria, and comparing E. coli to Linux.
(Image credit: Yale, PNAS)
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Intro
Current Event
Story 1
Story 2
Story 3
Story 4
Ending Comments
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Current Event: News item 1/News item 2/News item 3
Story 1: News item/Journal paper
Story 2: News item/Journal Paper
Story 3: News item/Journal Paper
Story 4: News item 1/News item 2/Journal Paper
Other interesting stories:
**Fear of Earthly microbes contaminating Mars
**Where oil comes from
**Fossils on Earth give hints about finding Martian life
**How probiotics are used more than they are known to work
**Fighting brain cancer with viruses
**A company that makes "solar panels" filled with microbes
**How soil microbes shouldn't be as bad for global warming as was thought
**How gut microbes affect bowel health
**A plant virus that now infects vertebrate animals
**Probiotics help premature infants
**How some marine bacteria can use sunlight too
**How gut microbes can affect celiac disease
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(Image credit: Yale, PNAS)
Download Episode (13.3 MB, 14.6 minutes)
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Intro
Current Event
Story 1
Story 2
Story 3
Story 4
Ending Comments
Show notes:
Current Event: News item 1/News item 2/News item 3
Story 1: News item/Journal paper
Story 2: News item/Journal Paper
Story 3: News item/Journal Paper
Story 4: News item 1/News item 2/Journal Paper
Other interesting stories:
**Fear of Earthly microbes contaminating Mars
**Where oil comes from
**Fossils on Earth give hints about finding Martian life
**How probiotics are used more than they are known to work
**Fighting brain cancer with viruses
**A company that makes "solar panels" filled with microbes
**How soil microbes shouldn't be as bad for global warming as was thought
**How gut microbes affect bowel health
**A plant virus that now infects vertebrate animals
**Probiotics help premature infants
**How some marine bacteria can use sunlight too
**How gut microbes can affect celiac disease
Post questions or comments here or email to bacteriofiles at gmail dot com. Thanks for listening!
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Sunday, May 2, 2010
BacterioFiles Episode 11
In this show, I report on four exciting stories: a probiotic bacteria that can fight cancer, bacteria in dust that affect asthma, microbes living in a lake of asphalt, and a census of marine microorganisms.
(Image credit: Dirk Schulze-Makuch)
Download Episode (13.4 MB, 14.75 minutes)
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Intro
Story 1
Story 2
Story 3
Story 4
Ending Comments
Show notes:
Story 1: News item/Journal paper
Story 2: News item/Journal Paper
Story 3: News item 1/News item 2/Submitted Paper
Story 4: News item 1/News item 2/Slideshow
Other interesting stories:
**Plant fungal disease that uses different tactics depending on which part of the plant it’s infecting
**Using microbes to clean up groundwater pollution
**The Navy investigating ways to use microbes to power small devices
**A species of bacterium that produces lots of hydrogen gas
**Using a microbe to protect grapes from grey mold
**Study about how probiotics may not help Salmonella food poisoning
**Paper about recently-discovered salt-loving archaea found in the human intestine
**Eukaryotic plankton in the ocean actually incorporate a lot of carbon dioxide into their cells
**Article describing the job of planetary protection officer for NASA
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Sunday, April 18, 2010
BacterioFiles Episode 10
In this show, I report on four exciting stories: bacteria for digesting sushi; a giant virus that replicates itself, with help; microbes living in Mars-like lakes; and using viruses to generate hydrogen.
(Image credit: Russell Knightley/SPL)
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Intro
Story 1
Story 2
Story 3
Story 4
Ending Comments
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Story 1: News items 1 2 3 4/Journal paper
Story 2: News item/Journal Paper 1/Journal paper 2
Story 3: News item/Journal paper
Story 4: News item/Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
**Bacteria for decomposing marine plastic pollution
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Monday, April 5, 2010
BacterioFiles Episode 9
In this show, I report on four exciting stories: bacterial fingerprints, bacteria in space, fungi that swap genes, and bacteria fighting for resources.
(Image credit: Eshel Ben-Jacob)
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Intro
Story 1
Story 2
Story 3
Story 4
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
Other interesting stories:
**Bacterial communications in the ocean affecting carbon movement
**Bacterial strain developed to make awesome sourdough bread
**Story about fermented kombucha tea
**Microbial inhabitants of the carnivorous pitcher plant
**Biotech company uses bacteria to make rubber for tires
**Circadian rhythms in bacteria
**Bacteria reveal new way to make oxygen
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**Story about fermented kombucha tea
**Microbial inhabitants of the carnivorous pitcher plant
**Biotech company uses bacteria to make rubber for tires
**Circadian rhythms in bacteria
**Bacteria reveal new way to make oxygen
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Sunday, March 28, 2010
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.
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.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
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)
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Intro
Story 1
Story 2
Story 3
Story 4
Ending Comments
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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
**The search for quantum behavior in viruses
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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.
Sunday, March 7, 2010
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)
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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 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
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**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!
Subscribe at iTunes
This show features music from Mevio's podsafe Music Alley.