BacterioFiles Micro Edition 90 - Prokaryote Parasites Deal Double Dose Death

This episode: Discovery of a bacterium infected by two distinct organisms at the same time!

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Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:
**Floating rocks, microbes, and the origin of life
**Diversity of plants and microbes helps prevent allergies
**Probiotics help prevent antibiotic-induced diarrhea
**Wind erosion is problematic both for soil and beneficial microbes
**Selective nutrition and other strategies could help good bacteria compete with pathogens

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 89 - Counting Cloud Communities

This episode: Sampling storm cloud microbial communities with hailstones!

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Show notes:
Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:
**Newly discovered bacteria make little balls of minerals inside themselves
**Scientists using bacteria to fix concrete cracks
**Breastfeeding seems important for infants' bacterial health
**Engineered E. coli produce lots of bioplastic (paper)
**Toxic counterfeit vodka fed to microbes to make electricity

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 88 - Bacteria Block Barnacle Binding

This episode: Biofilms help keep seaweed surfaces clear of barnacles!

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Show notes:
Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:
**Using modified bacteria to capture and remove viruses
**Bacteria are important for food flavor
**Prions can actually be helpful to yeast instead of harmful
**Plants release chemicals to attract helpful bacteria
**Enzyme from probiotics could help treat inflammatory bowel disease

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 87 - Fermenter Fixes Folate Faults

This episode: Probiotics could help prevent folate deficiency!

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Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:
**Cyanobacteria could produce table sugar better than plants
**Temperature-controlled microbial biotech
**Ocean worm feeds on toxic stuff with bacterial help
**New system to treat wastewater and produce biofuels
**Massive amounts of old bacteria are frozen in Antarctic ice

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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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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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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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