BacterioFiles Micro Edition 74 - Phages Facilitate Fester Fighting

This episode: Scientists use phages to make bacteria less antibiotic-resistant!

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Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:
**Using bacterial  bioluminescence for indoor lighting
**The uses and ethics of our microbiome
**Another bacterial insecticide that's harmless to humans
**Microbes could help degrade fracking chemicals and produce more gas (paper)
**Imaging a virus that attacks anthrax
**Bacteria growing with very little heat, oxygen, and food: maybe like on Mars
**Seemingly missing important metabolic enzyme in cyanobacteria found! Could help produce biofuels

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 73 - Single Cells Start Sticking

This episode: Scientists coax yeast to evolve into multicellular clusters!

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News item 1/News item 2/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:
**Bacterial swarm communication could improve robots
**Plant pests trade good bacteria by feeding on the same plant
**Yeast cell parents give daughter cells their newer, less damaged proteins
**Researchers figure out how bacteria break down certain hazardous pollutants
**E. coli made to produce biofuel from switchgrass
**Bacteria could help produce vaccines (paper)
**Probiotics could help when brain trauma causes whacky immune system

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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 71 - Bright Bacteria Brave Biting

This episode: Some ocean bacteria glow to attract those that eat them!

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News item/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:
**Some molds could actually help fight plant diseases
**Probiotics might help treat antibiotic-induced diarrhea
**Fecal transplants seem to effectively treat Clostridium difficile infections
**Could bacteria that eat other bacteria treat disease?
**Identifying bacteria that could help clean up contaminated water (paper)
**Bacteria could one day power airplanes
**A way to make bacteria produce fuel from sugar very quickly

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 70 - Microbes Make Multiple Magnets

This episode: Some bacteria have been discovered that construct multiple types of magnet in their cells!

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News item 1/News item 2/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:
**Engineered bacteria grow in bullseye design
**Logic gates designed in bacteria
**Virus could be used as building blocks for eyes, skin, teeth
**Algae could clean water and create biofuel in the process
**Students modify yeast to add vitamins to bread
**Bacteria could produce better sunscreen
**Engineered herpes could treat breast cancer (what a treatment!)

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 69 - Plants' Prokaryotic Partners

This episode: Plants open up their roots to let bacteria in!

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Show notes:
News item/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:
**Diet and its effects on gut bacteria (paper)
**Electrobacteria could produce good biofuel from carbon dioxide
**Viruses might have once been cells
**Using bacteria to prevent soil erosion
**Bacteria can change the whole world's climate
**Swarming bacteria move in a coordinated manner (paper)
**Gut bacteria could affect whether some drugs work or not

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 68 - Crustacean Calorie Caretaker

Credit: Oregon State University

This episode: Newly-discovered underwater crab farms its own bacterial food!

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

Other interesting stories:
**There is probably (microbial) life on Mars--that we put there (by accident)
**Cyanobacterial viruses are photosynthetic, sorta (paper)
**Freshwater springs in the Dead Sea allow interesting microbial growth
**Bacteria and yeast engineered to produce a new kind of diesel-like biofuel
**Using soil bacteria to kill cancer
**Heat-loving fungi could be good at making biofuels
**Bacteria could help clean up arsenic and make better cropland

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