BacterioFiles Micro Edition 24 - Ant-Associated Actinomycetes

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Created on Monday, 03 January 2011 21:02

Written by Jesse Noar

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• Developing ways to extract microbial biofuels
• Figuring out biofuel genetic pathways
• Volcano produces microbial bloom in ocean
• Monitoring bacteria could help monitor oil fields
• Probiotics could help prevent diarrhea in Indian children

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 23 - Dry Dry Desert Dwellers

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Created on Tuesday, 21 December 2010 14:55

Written by Jesse Noar

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• Using Tim Hortons cups as fuel
• Microbes can produce expensive cancer drug cheaply
• Ocean bacteria produce a possible new cancer drug
• Microbes may share genes much more than thought
• Testing bacterial limits with high-altitude balloon

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 22 - Shocking Shewanella

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Created on Sunday, 12 December 2010 15:44

Written by Jesse Noar

Other interesting stories:

• Some strains of Staph aureus weaken other bad strains
• Tiny sea creatures could affect course of hurricanes
• All about baking and bacteria
• Studying brewing bacteria
• Bacteria could inhibit fungal diseases

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 21 - Bacteria Belie Building Block Basics

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Created on Monday, 06 December 2010 13:25

Written by Jesse Noar

Other interesting stories:

• Finding good microbial enzymes for biofuel production
• Surprising Arctic soil ecology
• Developing sunscreen from bacteria
• Discovery of heat-tolerant cyanobacteria that collect iron
• Searching for oil-eating microbes

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 20 - Archaea Advanced Apart

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Created on Wednesday, 01 December 2010 14:17

Written by Jesse Noar

This episode: Our archaeal ancestors may have been more important to us than bacterial!

Other interesting stories:

• About the bacterial immune system
  
• Company patents microbe that makes and secretes biofuels from sunlight
  
• Bacteria ate up gases before oil in gulf
  
• A pickle spoilage bacterium could help clean up environment
  
• Heat-loving microbes in Arctic could hibernate for 100 million years

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 19 - Meager Meals Maintain Microbes

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Created on Wednesday, 10 November 2010 16:44

Written by Jesse Noar

This episode: Archaea subsist on extremely little.

• Probiotics may have some effect on tooth decay
• Repeated antibiotic treatment may hurt helpful gut bacteria
• Helpful fungi may help crop growth, depending on farm management
• Yeast study shows that sometimes selfishness is good for the group
• Mathematical models for bacterial growth

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 18 - Predators Provoke Prokaryote Prey

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Created on Tuesday, 02 November 2010 10:56

Written by Jesse Noar

This episode: Bacteria smell predators and cluster together for protection!

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• Bacteria as part of self-healing concrete
• Making sunscreen from bacteria
• How old are viruses?
• Paper on how probiotics may work
• Insect-borne plant pathogen may eat its insect carrier

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 17 - Radical Radiation Resistance

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Created on Thursday, 21 October 2010 14:28

Written by Jesse Noar

This episode: Using bacteria to recover precious metals like palladium!

Other interesting stories:

• Thrifty bacteria spend less on expensive proteins in hard times
• Using cold virus to treat cancer
• Paper about microbial enhancement of oil recovery
• Probiotics could prevent colic in babies
• Cannibal bacteria could be source of new antibiotics

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 16 - Capturing Costly Catalysts

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Created on Thursday, 14 October 2010 14:08

Written by Jesse Noar

This episode: Using bacteria to recover precious metals like palladium!

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Other interesting stories:

• Virus could fight malaria without resistance to it evolving
• A while ago, microbes made life possible in barren oceans
• The oil spill might actually be degraded quickly, thanks to newly discovered microbes
• Using nanotech to manipulate light to help algae grow to produce biofuels
• Giving fungus sunscreen to help it fight crop-eating insects

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 15 - Terrific Tiny Transplants

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Created on Sunday, 10 October 2010 13:26

Written by Jesse Noar

This episode: Potentially useful bacterial transplants!

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Other interesting stories:

• Giving yeast plant-digesting genes
• Using dog droppings to light dog park
• Microbes can cause gas explosions
• Aphids have modified their immune system to accommodate microbial symbiotes
• Paper on gut microbes of the elderly

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