BacterioFiles 234 - Phone, Floor Phylum Forensics

This episode: Learning things about people's identity and movements from microbial communities on their phones and shoes!


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News item 1/News item 2/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

Bacteria that live in the deepest part of the ocean

Gut bacteria, birth conditions, and weight are related (paper)

Bee microbiomes stay pretty constant

Early gut bacteria associated with food allergy risk

Gut bacteria could relate to ability to control blood sugar

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BacterioFiles 233 - Messy Microbes Maintain Mouse Microbiota

This episode: Mice in less sanitary conditions have more diverse gut communities and perhaps less allergy!

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Show notes:
Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

Fertilizer leads to less-helpful soil bacteria

Sponge bacteria help corals get phosphorus

Another way to use microbial electricity to produce hydrogen

Soap has bacteria too

Corals are eating plastic; is it harmful?

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BacterioFiles 232 - Exploring Enzymes' Element Effects

This episode: Bacteria can convert soluble uranium to an insoluble form, and distinguish between different isotopes!

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News item/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

Bacteria could help degrade environmental chemical contaminant (paper)

Phage could treat dental infections

Bacteria and grass together clean up soil

Mutant E. coli keeps getting longer without dividing

Algae could produce malaria vaccine

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BacterioFiles 231 - Creating Cancer-Killing Cultures

This episode: Engineering Salmonella strains that kill cancer cells but leave healthy ones alone!

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News item/Journal Paper

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Rocks floating on a lake house interesting microbes (paper)

Aerobiology - how bacteria affect the weather

Modified gut bacteria could control populations of insect disease vectors (paper)

Gut microbiome's health effects are not so simple

Some traits could be inherited via bacteria

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BacterioFiles 230 - Plant Prokaryotes Promote Protein Production

This episode: Bacteria in and around plants can help fertilizer them, even in non-legume plants!

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Show notes:
News item/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

Figuring out what microbes live (or lived) in NYC's subway

Duckweed could be good microbe food for making biofuels (paper)

Fungal endophytes help barley grow more sustainably

Flower wallpaper made of vaccinated cells

Plant-raping bacteria could help genetically modify yeast (paper)

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BacterioFiles 229 - Spore-formers Stimulate Serotonin

This episode: Bacteria in mouse guts control the production of serotonin, an important neurotransmitter!

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News item/Journal Paper

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Nitrogen-fixing bacterium could produce ethanol with fewer inputs

After fecal transplant from overweight donor, recipient became obese

Nitrogen-fixing bacteria partner with tiny animals in ocean (paper)

Monitoring microbiome could help diagnose type 1 diabetes

Breastfeeding could help prepare infant gut community for solid foods

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BacterioFiles 228 - Bacteria Beat Bat Blight

Inhibition assay, bacterial colonies
on fungal lawn. Hoyt et al. 2015

This episode: Bacteria isolated from bats' skin inhibits the growth of bat-killing fungus!

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Show notes:
News item/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

Bacteria could produce useful emulsifiers (paper)

Fast-growing cyanobacteria could be good for producing things

Making yeast produce more useful proteins such as insulin

Microalga could be good biofuel oil producer

Microbes might've helped create large gold deposits

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