BacterioFiles Micro Edition 115 - Nets Nab Nematodes

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Created on Monday, 04 March 2013 03:35

Written by Jesse Noar

This episode: Fungi sense worms coming and trap them!

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News Item/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

• Probiotics could be helpful for fish too
• 200-million-year-old cilitate preserved in leech cocoon
• Thin atmospheres might not be a problem for bacteria
• Some bacteria don't just resist antibiotics, they eat them (which might be a good thing)
• Engineering algae to make complex anti-cancer drug cheaply

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 114 - Popping Pathogen Provides Plasmid Prophylactic

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Created on Thursday, 21 February 2013 17:44

Written by Jesse Noar

This episode: Salmonella strain engineered to induce our cells to immunize us against diseases!

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Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

• Microbes found thriving in salty, noxious, sub-zero oxygen-free buried Antarctic lake
• Using a dog virus to make vaccines for human diseases
• Scientists produce electricity from plant-microbe team
• Newly discovered bacterium could help break down more of plant wastes for biofuels
• Researchers find bacteria to help degrade soil contaminants

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 113 - Bdelloids Derive Different Domains' DNA

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Created on Sunday, 10 February 2013 17:24

Written by Jesse Noar

This episode: Bdelloid rotifers borrow genetic material from all over the place!

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News item 1/News item 2/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

• Model suggests we might actively enable growth of beneficial gut microbes
• Predatory bacteria can even feed on their prey's storage polymers (paper)
• Plants' symbiotic bacteria can control their production of insect toxins and only produce when needed (paper)
• More bacteria than thought can get rid of potent greenhouse gas nitrous oxide
• Marine algae engineered to produce biofuels like fresh-water algae

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 112 - Belly Button Bacteria

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Created on Sunday, 03 February 2013 21:20

Written by Jesse Noar

This episode: Discovering what is living in our navels!

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News item 1/News item 2/Journal Paper/Project website

Other interesting stories:

• Video-article shows how to purify magnetic bacteria
• King Henry VIII's warship has novel bacteria growing in it (paper)
• Acid-loving bacteria can dissolve and extract metals for recycling
• In addition to photosynthesis, algae can digest cellulose for carbon
• Insect-infecting fungus may help control bed bugs

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 111 - Custom Community Controls Clostridium

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Created on Sunday, 27 January 2013 19:04

Written by Jesse Noar

This episode: Figuring out which bacteria help fecal transplants work so well against C. difficile!

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News item 1/News item 2/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

• City considering bacteria for cleaning up river
• Probiotics expressing human protein reduce gut inflammation
• Pressure-cooking algae into crude oil
• Man's hand wound leads to hints about how bacteria came to live in insects
• Wormy parasites help treat gut inflammation (in monkeys at least)

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 110 - Plant Pathogens Pair Perfectly

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Created on Tuesday, 22 January 2013 16:07

Written by Jesse Noar

This episode: Plant viruses work together to infect better!

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News item/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

• Bacteria could help improve truffle farming
• Figuring out how bacteria conduct electricity in seafloor sediment
• Bacterial photography
• Plants team up with bacteria in drought conditions
• Bacteria could help make self-healing concrete

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 109 - Labeling Lung Lurkers

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Created on Sunday, 11 November 2012 17:56

Written by Jesse Noar

This episode: Identifying the microbial communities of the lungs!

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News item/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:

• Commensal bacteria seem to influence animal behavior in some ways
• Directed evolution for biofuel production from bio-oil
• Prebiotics could help regrow removed intestines
• Cave bacteria could contain useful information, including antibiotics
• Fungus outcompetes aflatoxin fungi in crops, now applied using bioplastic

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 108 - Firing Phages to Fight faecalis

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Created on Monday, 29 October 2012 00:44

Written by Jesse Noar

This episode: Gut bacteria use phages to beat their competition!

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Other interesting stories:

• Cooperative predatory bacteria spread out in waves
• Using bacteria to clean up nicotine contamination (paper)
• Metal-tolerant bacteria can produce pure gold from Au salt
• Virus could treat diabetes by inducing weight gain
• Making biofuel-producing bacteria resistant to predation (paper)

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 107 - Lipases Liberate Light-Linked Lipids

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Created on Monday, 22 October 2012 23:27

Written by Vincent Racaniello

This episode: Scientists engineer cyanobacteria to release biofuels at high temperatures!

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Other interesting stories:

• Microbes could even help protect us from heavy metals directly
• Bacteria help turn rocks into soil
• New virus discovered that is related to major pathogens but doesn't infect humans
• Viruses could help treat drinking water
• Using music to make sense of microbiological data

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 106 - Bacteriophages Bust Blackheads

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Created on Sunday, 14 October 2012 20:32

Written by Jesse Noar

This episode: Scientists find that phages might be good for treating acne!

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Other interesting stories:

• Fungi could help make Stradivarius-quality violins
• Rabbit virus could kill cancer cells in dogs
• Potential biofuel microbe can survive in pretreatment conditions
• Microbes make for really good food
• MSU lab's evolving E. coli

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