BacterioFiles Micro Edition 23 - Dry Dry Desert Dwellers

This episode: Bacteria grow on quartz stones in the driest hot place on Earth!

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Show notes:
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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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 22 - Shocking Shewanella

This episode: Bacteria form electric nanowires!

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Show notes:
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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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 21 - Bacteria Belie Building Block Basics

This episode: Bacteria unlike any other known life form!

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Show notes:
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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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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Show notes:
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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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 19 - Meager Meals Maintain Microbes

This episode: Archaea subsist on extremely little.

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Show notes:
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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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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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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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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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

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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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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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 12 - Bacteria Barricade Bone Bits

This episode: Bacteria help preserve fossils!

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Show notes:
News item/Journal paper

Other interesting stories:
**Paper on viruses in a very salty lake

**Ethanol-resistant yeast good for biofuels

**An experiment forces bacteria to evolve
**Structure of adenovirus solved
**Gut microbe transplants discussed

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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

**Preserving the Titanic digitally before microbes eat it all

**Bacteria survive on the Space Station for more than a year

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 10 - Diet Defines Duodenal Dwellers

This episode: Diet might be the primary factor affecting gut microflora!

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Show notes:
News item 1/News item 2/Journal paper

Other interesting stories:
**Studying potential new probiotiocs

**Bacteria capable of "smelling"

**Improving biofuel production

**Studying the microbial role in digestion

**New kind of chlorophyll discovered

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 9 - Breastmilk Builds Babies' Bifidus

This episode: Breastmilk nourishes bacterial allies too!

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Show notes:
News item/Journal paper

Other interesting stories:
**More on gulf microbes

**Treating cancer with Salmonella

**Extremophiles and astrobiology

**Paper about bacteria as fertilizer

**Viral art

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 8 - Uncovering Undiscovered Unguents

This episode: Mining microbes for new compounds!

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Show notes:
News item/Journal paper

Other interesting stories:
**A yeast may help treat plant diseases

**Tasty ocean microbes are dying

**Breastmilk bacteria may defend against HIV

**Bacteria riding on small creatures in water reach new places

**Synthetic engineers find circuit that makes bacteria pop

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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!

BacterioFiles Micro Edition 7 - Ligneous Life Loves Little Lithotrophs

This episode: Trees grow their own good bacteria!

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Show notes:
News item/Journal paper

Other interesting stories:
**Microbes from deep ocean could have useful chemicals

**Discovery of organism that eats oil

**River microbes respond to pharmaceutical remnants
**Article about oil-degrading microbes

**Studying microbes in coldest place

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 6 - Acid Animalcules Against AIDS

This episode: A preventative treatment for AIDS using live bacteria!

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Show notes:
News item/Journal paper

Other interesting stories:
**Community structure on microbial fuel cells may not be ideal

**Microbes making alkanes, components of biofuel

**Marine microbes inhibit biofilm formation of pathogens
**Microbes are important for health

**Studying the origins of oil

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 5 - Small Supplements Sustain Soft Skin

This episode: Mother's probiotic treatment prevents disease in child!

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Show notes:
News item 1/News item 2/Journal paper

Other interesting stories:
**Paper about how gut microbes change in infant

**The levels of tasty ocean microbes may change

**Story about why there are so many species in the ocean
**Viral remnants in human genome may keep us healthy

**Bacteria help produce aluminum more cleanly

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 4 - Splicing Spider Silk Sequences

This episode: Making spider silk with bacteria!

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Show notes:
News item/Journal paper

Other interesting stories:
**Company making biofuels for navy

**NY Times on probiotics

**About bacteria that seem eukaryotic
**NY Times about fuel from algae

**Microbes flying from Sahara to Spain

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 3 - Icy Immunizations

This episode: Using cold-loving genes to make vaccines!

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Show notes:
News item/Journal paper

Other interesting stories:
**Bacterial diversity of a park in Spain

**Microbes break down oil on beaches

**Bacterial proteins are more complex than we thought

**Ocean bacteria create methane too

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BacterioFiles 2 - Friendly Phages

This episode: Possibly friendly viruses in our intestines!

Download Episode (3 MB, 3 minutes) Download Just the Story Show notes: News item/Journal paper Other interesting stories: **UK Squirrels threatened by human skin bacteria

**Oil spill enriches methane-eating bacteria

**Microbes play large role in carbon and sulfur cycles

**Studying termite gut microbes to learn about biofuels

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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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Show notes:
News item 1/News item 2/Journal paper

Other interesting stories:
**Paper about making electricity

**Knowledge of Microbiome will lead to New Treatments

**Designer "grows" clothes using bacteria

**Researching algal complexity for biofuels

**Finding fungal enzymes for biofuels

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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.

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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Story 1
Story 2
Story 3
Story 4
Ending Comments

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Story 1: News item 1/News item 2/Journal paper
Story 2: News item/Journal Paper
Story 3: Journal Paper
Story 4: News article/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:
**How the oil spill threatens researchers' plans

**About enzymes for making biofuels

**Article about yeast

**On viral cancer therapy

**Bacterial gene restores sight to blind

**Will oil-eating bacteria cause problems?

**Virus used to control beetle pest

**Computers communicating like bacteria

**Bacteria that can do useful things for the environment

**Hot Alaskan oilfields have oil-degrading microbes

**Bacterial diversity in a basic salty lake

**Using photosynthesizers to make useful chemicals

**Hydrogen gas production by a cyanobacterium

**Analysis of nose and throat bacteria/another

**How algae in the ocean get nitrogen

**Using viruses to study the brain

**Add nutrients to ocean to increase carbon storage

**Electricity-producing bacteria improved with light

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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!

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Story 1
Story 2
Story 3
Special

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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

**New study about how bacteria swim

**Interesting microbial life lives under the seafloor

**Businesses are interested in Venter's synthetic life

**Bacteria converting oil to natural gas

**Developing bacteria to kill mosquitoes

**Using bacteria to clean up oil spill

**Shallow ocean worm symbionts related to deep sea vent microbes

**Fungi help rice plants grow big

**New strain discovered that could help clean environment

**Research on making bioplastic/more

**Discovery about how bacteria evolve stress resistance

**Soil bacterial diversity in the Arctic not much different from elsewhere

**Oral bacteria could protect against respiratory infections

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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 3
Story 4
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Story 1: News item/Journal paper
Story 2: News item/Journal Paper
Story 3: News item/Journal Paper
Story 4: News article 1/News article 2

Other interesting stories:
**More about microbes and the BP oil spill

**An article about microbes and climate

**Life in a subzero Arctic spring

**A modified virus that could treat childhood brain tumors

**Mutated oral bacteria could give clue to Alzheimer's

**In slime molds, the first to starve wins

**Using microbes to generate hydrogen

**Probiotic organism in breastmilk good for infant digestion

**Genome of brown algae gives clues to evolution of multicellularity and photosynthesis

**Study of bacteria that live inside fungi that live inside plants

**How microbes affect precipitation/another site

**The relationship between bacteria and obesity/another site

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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 1
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Story 4
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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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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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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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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)


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Story 1
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Story 3
Story 4
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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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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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Story 4
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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

**Algae that take bacterial supplements

**Bacteria that affect greenhouse gases

**Growing new species

**Cyanobacteria that secrete oil

**Slime mold-based computing

**Another hostile lake with microbes in it

**Extremophiles focused on survival

**Dinosaur-age microbial fossils

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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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Story 4
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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

**Microvi Biotech using bacteria to clean up pollution

**How E. coli controls its swimming speed

**Dormant microbes still affect environment

**A virus that could treat arthritis

**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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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)

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Story 4
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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

**Probiotic chewing gum

**A biochemicals production company

**Microbial Underground

**The search for quantum behavior in viruses

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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)

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Story 1
Story 2
Story 3
Story 4
Story 5
Ending Comments

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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

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