BacterioFiles 180 - Phage Functions Fight Fortifications

This episode: Some phages can fight back against bacterial defenses with recently discovered genes!

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Show notes:
Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

Antibiotic treatment of certain bacterial disease associated with weight gain

Knowing what is a healthy microbiome is tricky

Knowing how the microbiome is related to obesity is tricky

Genes for antibiotics in fungi could have come from bacteria

Antibiotics could disrupt newborns' adaptation to microbes

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BacterioFiles 179 - Functionless Phages Feel Fatiguing

This episode: Defective phages in bacterial genomes can still have burdensome effects! Why do the bacteria keep them around?

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Show notes:
Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

Microbes are essential and important for all life on the planet

Modified virus could treat most dangerous brain cancers

Microbes help inhibit worms that harm plants (paper)

Trying to figure out what gut viruses people had in the 14th century (paper)

Beewolves have close hereditary connection with their bacterial symbionts

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BacterioFiles 178 - Hadza Hunters Have Heterogeneous Helpers

This episode: Modern hunter-gatherers have very different gut microbes from people from agricultural societies!

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

Other interesting stories:

Probiotic doesn't seem to help colic in babies

Different communities live in different places in a house

Bacteria protect Earth from mirror-image molecules

Communities of microbes and fungi could clean up oil spill pollution

Parasites can bend even plants to their will in order to spread

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BacterioFiles 177 - Phages Fight Food Filth

This episode: Phages could be used to reduce infection with dangerous bacteria from meat and vegetables!

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Show notes:
News item/Journal Paper
Agriculture Science Today podcast discussion of this paper

Other interesting stories:

Slime mold computers get more complex

Certain microbes on the body may protect against HIV infection

Designing more bacteria-friendly sewer concrete

Fungal compounds may help with Alzheimer's

Scientists make a whole yeast chromosome synthetically

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