This episode: Bacteria are active even encased in ice!

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Other interesting stories:

• Aquatic bacteria communicate to organize feeding
• Using bacteria to prevent plumbing clogs from holiday grease
• Bacteria could help measure glucose levels for diabetics
• The ocean environment helped bacteria eat Gulf oil spill faster
• Figuring out how to use microbes to produce a better biofuel compound
• Gut microbes are different in people of different weights
• Algae even grow in water covered with ice

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This episode: Scientists figure out how to utilize the prokaryotic immune system!

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Other interesting stories:

• Gut microbe diversity protects against allergies
• Researchers create biopixel display, could sense environmental signals
• Certain bacteria seem to have moved to land later than thought, could be good for biofuels
• Stomach bacteria cause ulcers but may protect against diarrhea
• Slime molds could help design efficient networks
• Control over biofilms would be good for biotechnology
• Microbes could power future space robots

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

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

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• 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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This episode: Bacteria on your skin affect your attractiveness to mosquitoes!

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

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

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

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• 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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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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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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