BacterioFiles Micro Edition 67 - Healthful Helper Helices

This episode: Probiotic DNA can be good for our health!

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Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:
**Bacteria could help defend coral against stress
**Researchers replace half of a yeast's chromosome with synthetic DNA
**Beetles use antibiotics to keep offsprings' food safe
**Virus could be used to treat cancers
**Root bacteria influence growth of plants (paper)
**Bacteria engineered to be able to produce useful unnatural proteins
**Fungi could make beech trees more colorful and pretty (paper)

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 66 - Microbe-Mycelium Mutualism

This episode: Bacteria and fungi work together to explore new territory!

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News article/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:
**Diet affects viruses in gut a lot too
**Diet may be able to treat gut disorders by manipulating bacteria
**Soil bacteria may help treat cancer
**Desert bacteria coordinate with the daily water cycle
**Fungus makes gold nanoparticles which may kill cancer (paper)
**Bacteria can protect plants against fungi and insects
**Some amount of microbe exposure may keep us healthy

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 65 - Superfluous Cells Stop Sniffles

This episode: Exposure to many bacteria early in life seems to prevent allergies!

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News article/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:
**Bacteria could produce biofuel from old newspaper
**Scientists rewrite E. coli genetic code to make certain kinds of protein easily
**Virus related to rabies could kill cancer in children
**Probiotics seem to affect behavior (in mice, at least)
**Yeast converting seaweed to biofuel quickly
**Figuring out which parts of bacterial genome are essential
**Panda gut bacteria may be good for making biofuels

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 64 - Proving Probiotic Products

This episode: Probiotic yogurt doesn't seem to change microbial community much!

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News article/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:
**Breastfeeding seems to related to infants' risk of Celiac disease via gut microbes
**Bacterial fossils found that seem to be 3.4 billion years old
**Bacteria can make electricity from wastewater
**Beneficial bacteria may be permanently lost because of antibiotics
**Plant-dwelling fungi may degrade polyurethane (paper)
**Vegetable oil could help bacteria clean up uranium contamination (paper)
**Helping yeast resist stresses of biofuel production

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 63 - Bombus Bacteria Beat Baddies

This episode: Bee colonies share gut bacteria to prevent disease!

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News article/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:
**Bacterial nanowires are pretty awesome at moving electrons
**Yeast cells, probably like early ancestors, can get by on very little oxygen
**Scientists imitate viral method of transferring genes to cells
**Algae biofuels work pretty well but not awesome
**Bacteria-eating bacteria seem to behave differently in different kinds of light
**Bacteria could clean up mercury contamination in environment
**Bacteria engineered to seek and destroy pathogens

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 62 - Plant-like Polymer Production

This episode: Algae are good for making bioplastic!

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News article/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:
**Yeasts may make greener chemicals
**Bacteria could clean up toxic chemicals from PVC production
**Bacteria seem to have eaten that big oil spill more quickly than expected
**How cyanobacteria stock up on energy and how this could help make hydrogen
**Fungi from rainforest could degrade plastic
**Frankia bacteria could produce many useful chemicals
**Gut parasite could lead to advances in swimming robots

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 61 - Cells Support Cellulosic Supper

This episode: Bacteria may help pandas be herbivorous!

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News article 1/News article 2/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:
**Fungi could help crops survive many kinds of stress
**Using bacteria to get more oil out of wells
**Bacteria could help fight AIDS
**Fungus helps control tree-killing insect
**Just one species of microbe in many different forms

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