Saturday, July 6, 2013

BacterioFiles Micro Edition 126 - Tamed Trespasser Tramples Tumors

This episode: A harmless pathogen strain combined with radioactivity can fight pancreatic cancer!

Download Episode (5.3 MB, 5.8 minutes)

Show notes:
News item 1/News item 2/News item 3/Journal Paper
Video of Listeria swimming around inside cells

Other interesting stories:
**Finding new electricity-generating species of bacteria (paper)
**Trials starting to heal people's hearts using modified virus
**Soil bacteria could form barrier to prevent rice from taking up arsenic
**Strange cobwebby bacteria are growing in spent nuclear fuel cooling tanks
**Bacteria are living high up in hurricanes

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