Monday, August 10, 2015

BacterioFiles 224 - Super Small Cells

Ultramicrobacterium.
Fig 3 Luef et al 2015
This episode: Scientists discover what seem to be ultra-small bacteria, possibly smaller than the theoretical minimum size!

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

Other interesting stories:
  • Bacteria could produce good biofuels from renewable resources (paper)
  • Studying quorum sensing by 3D-printing bacterial biofilms (paper)
  • Marine algae could be good source of nutrients alternative to fish oil
  • Caterpillar mind-control virus seems to manipulate response to light
  • 9 cool things about microbes

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    1. sherlinAugust 25, 2015 at 11:53 PM

      The stories you shared about bacteria is so interesting! Hope for more information about Microbiology and Microarray!

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