BacterioFiles Micro Edition 47 - Modeling Meals' Microbiota Modifications

This episode: Modeling how our gut communities change with diet!

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Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:
**Enzymes from soil microbes may help biofuel production
**Using bacteria to fight cancer
**Probiotics might help protect athletes from free radicals
**Good gut bacteria may fight off the flu
**Using E. coli to produce useful amounts of biofuel
**Viruses as another domain of life?

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 46 - Better Bacterial Bioplastic

This episode: Making bioplastic with industrial exhaust gas!

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Show notes:
Journal paper

Other interesting stories:
**Getting a virus to improve mouse memory
**Tiny virus protects zooplankton against much larger virus
**Cold-weather algae produce mucusy antifreeze to make ice more homey
**Bacteria help plant seeds resist salt stress
**Are people too afraid of bacteria?
**Making therapeutical viruses invisible to immune system interference

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 45 - Partners Produce Prion-Pulverizing Proteins

This episode: Some lichens can degrade environmental prions!

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Show notes:
News item/Journal paper/Actual test of enzyme application

Other interesting stories:
**E. coli quickly evolves to withstand high pressures
**Developing fungi deadly to insect pests and disease vectors
**Bacteria could help carry materials for nanofabrication
**Engineering E. coli to produce biofuel
**Fungus-fighting fungus could treat diseases of plants and people
**Eukaryotic microbe has seven different sexes

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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 Micro Edition 43 - Cells Survive Centrifuging

This episode: Microbes grow under hypergravity!

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Show notes:
News item/Journal paper

Other interesting stories:
**Microbes deep underground get energy from rock
**Company feeding bacteria with plant waste-derived gas to generate fuel
**Discovery of protein that helps bacteria produce proteins useful to us
**Coral reef bacteria could help prevent osteoporosis
**Using bacteria to help test potential drugs for certain types of toxicity
**Algae could clean wastewater and produce fuel at the same time

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 42 - Beneficial Bowel Bugs

This episode: Helpful gut bacteria communicate with the immune system!

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Show notes:
News item

Journal paper

Review

Other interesting stories:
**Cleaning up dry-cleaning chemicals with bacteria
**Probiotics that could help inflammatory bowel disease
**Bacteria could make plant oils into plastic
**How slime mold-like bacteria move around
**Microscopic predator may have stolen a gene from its prey
**On bacteria commonly found in lichens

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 41 - Current-Catching Carbon Converters

This episode: Multiple bacterial species can use electricity!

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Show notes:
Journal paper

Other interesting stories:
**Bacterial enzymes could help make plants pesticide-resistant
**Nitrogen-fixing bacteria worth storing in doomsday seed vault
**Dormant microbes play important roles in environment too
**Using microbes to convert biofuel production waste into more biofuel
**Looking in cow guts for better biofuel bacteria
**Evolving E. coli into a high-pressure extremophile

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