BacterioFiles Micro Edition 55 - Insect Invaders Inhibit Infections

This episode: Bacteria in mosquitoes could prevent Dengue fever!

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News article 1/News article 2/Journal Paper 1/Journal Paper 2

Other interesting stories:
**Probiotics may help partly by inducing the gut to make reactive oxygen species
**Helping microbes to tolerate higher levels of biofuels they produce
**Scientists figure out how ocean microbes help create clouds
**Sending microbes into space
**Relevant to podcast: Wolbachia could also inhibit malaria
**Probiotic protein could help IBD
**Advances in microbial nanowire structure

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 54 - Hydrothermal Hydrogen Handlers

This episode: Black smoker bacteria are more versatile as symbionts than we thought!

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

Other interesting stories:
**College students find new bacteriophages
**Using viruses to make better solar panels
**Seeing what microbes live under the sea floor
**Figuring out what gut bacteria are doing
**Certain bacteria, especially from breastmilk, can protect children from dangerous E. coli
**Diverse soil bacteria can be like probiotics for plants
**Common stomach pathogen seems to alleviate gut inflammation

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 53 - Bacteria Beta-oxidate Butanol Biofuel

This episode: Reversing a metabolic pathway is very effective!

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

Other interesting stories:
**C. difficile colonization may be preventable with probiotics
**Algae is promising bioenergy producer
**Gut bacteria may have significant influence on our brains
**Poet encodes his verse into an extremophile's genome
**Using cyanobacteria to produce fatty acid biofuels (paper)

**Effects of weaning on infant microbiota (paper)

**Phages may help save corals from bleaching

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 52 - Lentivirus Lances Leukemia

This episode: Attacking cancer using an HIV-related virus!

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Show notes:
News article/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:
**Manipulating our microbes for health
**Interesting microbes found in Antarctic lake
**Using bacteria as air filters for pesticide vapors
**Probiotic may prevent urinary tract infections
**Humans seem to have three different general types of gut community
**Developing viruses that can destroy bacterial biofilms
**Coaxing E. coli to produce more butanol biofuel

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 51 - Alien Ally Annihilates AIDS

This episode: Attacking HIV using a related virus!

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Show notes:
News article/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:
**Surprisingly, heat-loving microbes found in Antarctica
**Algae found living in salamander cells
**More organisms in streams may mean cleaner water
**Extremophiles living in our hot water heaters
**Bacteria help whiteflies compete better
**Scientists recreate ancient enzymes in lab to see what life was like long ago
**Bacteria engineered to make biofuel out of plant waste

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 50 - Microbes Mop Malicious Metals

This episode: Bacteria could help plants clean up heavy metal-contaminated soils!

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Show notes:
News article/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:
**What viruses do in our bodies (besides make us sick)
**Blocking CO2 fixation makes bacteria produce more hydrogen
**Probiotic E. coli could prevent other E. coli from causing disease
**Developing bacterial biocontrol of crop pests
**Bacteria eating the ground out from under town
**Oil from algae
**Bacteria can survive surprising levels of radiation

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 49 - Helicobacter Holds Human History

This episode: Stomach bacteria reveal some of human history!

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Show notes:
News article/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:
**Making biofuels out of brewery waste
**Using bacteria to sense toxic chemical contamination of streams
**Gut bacteria could influence wiring of the brain
**Bacteria could prevent excess of nitrogen in pig feed
**Bacteria seem to be eating plastic bits in oceans
**Gut bacteria regulate influence response to influenza
**Bacteria could deliver drugs to specific body parts

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