BacterioFiles 320 - Fortified Fungi Fight Fevers

Anopheles gambiae

This episode: Fungi modified to produce spider and scorpion toxins kill malaria-transmitting mosquitoes extra fast!

Thanks to Brian Lovett for his contribution.

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Show notes:
Microbe of the episode: Microbispora parva

News item

Journal Paper:
Bilgo E, Lovett B, Fang W, Bende N, King GF, Diabate A, Leger RJS. 2017. Improved efficacy of an arthropod toxin expressing fungus against insecticide-resistant malaria-vector mosquitoes. Sci Rep 7:3433.

Other interesting stories:

Virus-like protein helps bacteria eat fungi (paper)

Molecules from good bacteria help animals stay healthy for longer (paper)

Zika virus could help treat brain cancer

Probiotic bacterium helps prevent gluten-related gut problems in mice (paper)

Native vs. invader microbes help or prevent invasive marine plants invade

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BacterioFiles 207 - Microbe Messages Mire Malaria Movement

Green fluorescence shows α-gal expression
Yilmaz et al. 2014

This episode: Gut microbes may induce an immune response that protects against malaria!

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News item/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

Gut bacteria help immune responses even in the lungs (of mice)

Conductive bacteria can encase themselves in uranium

Discovering and prepping bacteria to degrade environmental pollutants

Using bacteria to reduce arsenic toxicity in rice

Soil fungi protect potatoes from parasites

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BacterioFiles 169 - Microbes Meddle with Mesophilic Malaria

This episode: Ambient temperature seems to affect how much insect bacteria can interfere with transmission of malaria!

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News item/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

One kind of yeast divides age-related damage evenly between daughter cells instead of giving all of it to one

How gut bacteria break down fiber we eat

Making interesting art/clothing with dangerous bacteria

Study of how soil microbes react to warming environment (paper)

Gut bacteria associated with obesity are more common in some places than in others

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 125 - Phototroph Fusion Fights Fevers

This episode: Green algae could help create new cheaper, more stable vaccines for developing countries!

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Show notes:
News item/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

**Some dirt in the diet could be very healthy
**Gut bacteria seem to kill Salmonella directly
**Bacteria may influence biological clocks, at least in squid
**Protein in mountain bacteria similar enough to brain protein to allow comparison
**Soil bacterium could reduce contamination of crops with deadly fungal toxin (paper)

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 98 - Modified Microbes Make Mosquito Midguts Murder Malaria

This episode: Scientists engineer mosquito gut bacteria to fight malaria!

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

Other interesting stories:
**Dog microbes could protect kids against asthma induced by a virus
**Enzyme from marine microbe could clean teeth better than toothpaste
**Underground bacteria could be helpful or harmful for long-term radioactive waste storage
**New algae strain produces unusual amounts of oil for biofuels
**Changes in gut microbes could be part of why gastric bypass helps weightloss

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 72 - Microbes Manipulate Mosquito Messages

This episode: Bacteria on your skin affect your attractiveness to mosquitoes!

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

Other interesting stories:
**Virus from smallpox vaccine could help people survive longer with liver cancer
**Craig Venter planning to engineer biofuel-producing algae
**Developing prebiotics by growing fecal bacteria in sugar beet pulp (paper)
**Lactic acid bacteria could be probiotics in mouth too (paper)
**Bacteria can be multicellular too
**Probiotics could help protect gut from radiation
**Probiotics could help treat pancreatitis

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 55 - Insect Invaders Inhibit Infections

This episode: Bacteria in mosquitoes could prevent Dengue fever!

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News article 1/News article 2/Journal Paper 1/Journal Paper 2

Other interesting stories:
**Probiotics may help partly by inducing the gut to make reactive oxygen species
**Helping microbes to tolerate higher levels of biofuels they produce
**Scientists figure out how ocean microbes help create clouds
**Sending microbes into space
**Relevant to podcast: Wolbachia could also inhibit malaria
**Probiotic protein could help IBD
**Advances in microbial nanowire structure

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 44 - Mosquito Microbes Mitigate Malaria

This episode: Bacteria fight malaria in the bellies of mosquitoes!

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

Other interesting stories:
**Paper about probiotic that could prevent toxic shock syndrome
**Growing up on a farm seems to prevent asthma--probably because of microbes
**Probiotic could help treat stomach ulcers
**Making biofuels out of brewery waste
**Bacteria growing on old dead trees are forest's best source of nitrogen
**Gut bacteria seem to affect organ function

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BacterioFiles Episode 2

In this show, I report on three exciting stories plus one more: bacteria turning tiny gears, a way bacteria can produce electricity, how microbe exposure early in life could protect the heart, and how bacteria could prevent mosquito-borne diseases.

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Intro
Story 1
Story 2
Story 3
Story 4
Ending Comments

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Story 1: News item/Journal paper/Videos
Story 2: News item/Journal paper
Story 3: News item/Journal paper
Story 4: News item/Journal paper


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