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Sunday, March 25, 2012

BacterioFiles Micro Edition 81 - Agrobacterium Antibodies Attack AIDS

This episode: Scientists find a way to possibly make an HIV vaccine using bacteria!

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News item/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:
**Bacteria may help to store excess carbon dioxide underground
**Bacteriophage needles that penetrate bacteria have iron tip
**Pathogen could be useful, produces very strong glue
**Yeast made to respond to magnets, useful for biotech
**Exploring the ocean, microscopically
**Improving knowledge of an already well-known useful bacterium
**Cold-loving yeasts: where they are and what they (could) do (paper)

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Labels: animals, bacteria, biotechnology, disease prevention, eukaryotes, health, immune system, medicine, plants, synthetic biology, vaccines, viruses

Sunday, March 18, 2012

BacterioFiles Micro Edition 80 - Bacterial Breakdown Benefits Bugs

This episode: Bacteria help leaf-cutter ants break down their garden fertilizer!

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Show notes:
News item/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:
**Smoking disrupts healthy mouth bacteria, letting pathogens invade
**Seems like viral infection led to evolution of mammals
**Finding life under crust of dry desert could help find life on Mars and such
**Fungi with bacterial genes make antivirals out of crustacean shells
**Thermophiles may make good biofuel producers
**Mapping all microbes on Earth
**Making bacteria do all kinds of things

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Labels: animals, bacteria, biofuels, ecology, eukaryotes, fungi, genes, insects, plants, proteins, symbiosis

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

BacterioFiles Micro Edition 79 - Stratospheric Strain's Super Sparks

This episode: Finding stratospheric electricity-producing microbes!

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

Other interesting stories:
**Probiotic bacteria may work partly due to special coating
**New microbes found in mysterious ocean caves
**Figuring out how bacteria use stickiest glue
**Studying microbes under dead seals in Arctic
**Bacteria and their size - is it ideal?
**Desert archaea allow themselves to dry out but remain viable (paper)
**Could use bacteria to treat sleeping sickness

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Labels: bacteria, biofilms, bioreactors, biotechnology, climate change, electricity, environment, respiration

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

BacterioFiles Micro Edition 78 - Proving Prions Provide Positives

This episode: Prions may actually help yeast populations survive!

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Show notes:
News item/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:
**Do microbiota change as species evolve apart? (paper)
**Viruses pretend to help bacteria but then take over
**Even extinguished hydrothermal vents have interesting life growing
**Fecal bacteria transplant seems effective for C. difficile infections
**Cyanobacteria as art
**Bacteria could be used to diagnose illness by changing poop color
**Fungi degrading another kind of long-lasting polymer

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Labels: animals, disease prevention, eukaryotes, evolution, fungi, health, prions, proteins
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