BacterioFiles Micro Edition 86 - Bacteria Boost Beta Business

This episode: Engineered bacteria help reverse type 1 diabetes in mice!

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Show notes:
News item/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:
**Making more environmentally friendly solar panels with bacteria
**Multiple bacterial species can make more electricity in fuel cell than just one (paper)
**Studying the spike viruses use to pierce and infect bacteria
**Bacteria steadily breaking down the Titanic
**Potential for using probiotic bacteria to preserve food (paper)
**Using probiotics to help with heavy metal contamination, in fish at least (paper)
**Potential of bacteria from Italian hydrothermal vents (paper)

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 85 - Pathogen Partitions Parasitoid Populations

This episode: A virus influences the competition between two species of parasitoid wasp!

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Show notes:
Example of parasitoid manipulator/News item/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:
**Using bacteria to recapture dwindling phosphorus resources
**Modifying E. coli to make pharmaceuticals better
**Using bacteria to make electricity from sewage
**Bacteria could carry medicine to specific targets in the body
**Electric-powered bacteria could turn carbon dioxide into fuel
**Bacteria living in wheat help fight off plant disease
**Looking into algae for biofuels

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 84 - Latent Loops Limit Lupus

This episode: A viral infection in mice seems to protect against lupus!

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Show notes:
News item/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:
**Engineering a new bacterial system for biofuel production
**Slime mold naturally creates model of Canadian road network
**Gut bacteria might be connected to allergies
**Venter promises many biotech advances from custom microbes
**Sometimes microbes lose a necessary ability because others around them make it unnecessary: evolution of cooperation
**Using photosynthetic eukaryotic microbes as detection method for cancer
**Phage therapy to treat serious bacterial infections

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 83 - Annelid Archivory

This episode: Discovery of a worm that eats archaea!

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Show notes:
News item/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:
**Virus has potential to treat pancreatic cancer
**River microbes could produce graphene
**Diatoms could form biosensor that glows in response to chemicals
**Creating smaller bacterial genomes for engineering by randomly removing pieces
**Measuring very slow growth deep in the ocean
**Characterizing honeybee gut bacteria (paper)
**Figuring out how exposure to bacteria helps immune system development

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 82 - Scintillating Sea Strain

Credit: Paper authors

This episode: Scientists describe iridescent sea bacteria!

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Show notes:
Journal Paper/Videos

Other interesting stories:
**Appendix seems to help protect good gut bacteria populations
**Cells move in swarm just by growing and pushing water ahead of them (paper)
**Making bacteria produce another, better-smelling kind of biofuel
**Newly-discovered chlorophyll lets bacteria use low-energy light as efficiently as any
**Bacteria live well underneath glaciers
**In mice, antibiotic treatment leads to more severe asthma
**Finding new ways to engineer yeast

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