BacterioFiles

BacterioFiles Episode 12

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Category: BacterioFiles

Created on Sunday, 16 May 2010 00:00

Written by Jesse Noar

In this show, I report on four exciting stories: interesting organisms found living in acid, purple bacteria's efficiency in capturing light, a cocaine overdose treatment from bacteria, and comparing E. coli to Linux.

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Current Event: News item 1/News item 2/News item 3
Story 1: News item/Journal paper
Story 2: News item/Journal Paper
Story 3: News item/Journal Paper
Story 4: News item 1/News item 2/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

• Fear of Earthly microbes contaminating Mars
• Where oil comes from
• Fossils on Earth give hints about finding Martian life
• How probiotics are used more than they are known to work
• Fighting brain cancer with viruses
• A company that makes "solar panels" filled with microbes
• How soil microbes shouldn't be as bad for global warming as was thought
• How gut microbes affect bowel health
• A plant virus that now infects vertebrate animals
• Probiotics help premature infants
• How some marine bacteria can use sunlight too
• How gut microbes can affect celiac disease

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