Monday, December 27, 2021

467 - Prion Pivots Productive Pathways

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Saccharomyces  yeast By Mogana Das Murtey and Patchamuthu Ramasamy CC BY-SA 3.0 This episode: Prions in yeast can allow better adaptation to...
Monday, December 6, 2021

466 - Microbes Mining Mars Minerals

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Basalt close up By Helgi, CC BY-SA 4.0 This episode: Bacteria are able to extract metals from rocks for industrial use, even in microgravit...
Monday, November 22, 2021

465 - Partners Produce Predator Prevention

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Fungus cells with  bacterial symbionts By Büttner et al. 2021 PNAS 118:e2110669118 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 This episode: Bacteria living inside soil...
Monday, November 8, 2021

464 - Prodding Pollen's Popping Process

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Pollen (fromWikipedia) This episode: Certain nectar-dwelling bacteria can induce pollen to germinate to access their tasty proteins! Down...
Monday, September 20, 2021

463 - Selectively Stimulating Cell Squatters

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Bacteriophages By Jancheva and Böttcher 2021, JACS 143:8344-8351 CC BY 4.0 This episode: Bacteria produce a compound that causes a phage lur...
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Monday, September 13, 2021

462 - Super Ciliate Symbiont Set

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Pseudoblepharisma tenue By Muñoz-Gómez et al, 2021, Sci Adv 7:eabg4102, CC BY 4.0 This episode: A eukaryote has symbionts living in it: gree...
Monday, September 6, 2021

461 - Ingrained Invader Inhibits Infectors

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Lambda phage By Hans-Wolfgang Ackermann Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics CC BY 4.0 This episode: Training a phage strain on bacteria can in...