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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 4 - Splicing Spider Silk Sequences
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- Category: BacterioFiles
- Created on Wednesday, 04 August 2010 00:00
- Written by Jesse Noar
This episode: Making spider silk with bacteria!
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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 3 - Icy Immunizations
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- Category: BacterioFiles
- Created on Tuesday, 27 July 2010 00:00
- Written by Jesse Noar
This episode: Using cold-loving genes to make vaccines!
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Other interesting stories:
- Bacterial diversity of a park in Spain
- Microbes break down oil on beaches
- Bacterial proteins are more complex than we thought
- Ocean bacteria create methane too
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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 2 - Friendly Phages
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- Category: BacterioFiles
- Created on Sunday, 25 July 2010 00:00
- Written by Jesse Noar
This episode: Possibly friendly viruses in our intestines!
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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 1 - Bacteria Boost Buzzing Babies
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- Created on Wednesday, 21 July 2010 00:00
- Written by Jesse Noar
Trying something new: Micro Edition! One story, put out when there is an interesting new item. This episode: Bacteria protect fruit flies from parasites!
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Show notes:
News item 1/News item 2/Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
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BacterioFiles Episode 16
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- Category: BacterioFiles
- Created on Sunday, 11 July 2010 00:00
- Written by Jesse Noar
In this show, I report on four exciting stories: birthing method affecting babies' bacteria, soil microbes affecting forest ecology, endophytes producing useful compounds, and manipulating gut bacteria for health.
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Show notes:
Story 1: News item 1/News item 2/Journal paper
Story 2: News item/Journal Paper
Story 3: Journal Paper
Story 4: News article/Journal Paper
Other interesting stories:
- How the oil spill threatens researchers' plans
- About enzymes for making biofuels
- Article about yeast
- On viral cancer therapy
- Bacterial gene restores sight to blind
- Will oil-eating bacteria cause problems?
- Virus used to control beetle pest
- Computers communicating like bacteria
- Bacteria that can do useful things for the environment
- Hot Alaskan oilfields have oil-degrading microbes
- Bacterial diversity in a basic salty lake
- Using photosynthesizers to make useful chemicals
- Hydrogen gas production by a cyanobacterium
- Analysis of nose and throat bacteria/another
- How algae in the ocean get nitrogen
- Using viruses to study the brain
- Add nutrients to ocean to increase carbon storage
- Electricity-producing bacteria improved with light
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BacterioFiles Episode 15
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- Category: BacterioFiles
- Created on Sunday, 27 June 2010 00:00
- Written by Jesse Noar
In this show, I report on three exciting stories: how viral invasions might've shaped human evolution, how bacteria are good for the immune system, and using viruses for medicine. Plus, biofuels special extravaganza!
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Show notes:
Story 1: News item/Journal paper
Story 2: News item/Journal Paper
Story 3: News item/Journal Paper
Biofuels Special: 1 2 3 4 5
Other interesting stories:
- Underground microbiology
- New study about how bacteria swim
- Interesting microbial life lives under the seafloor
- Businesses are interested in Venter's synthetic life
- Bacteria converting oil to natural gas
- Developing bacteria to kill mosquitoes
- Using bacteria to clean up oil spill
- Shallow ocean worm symbionts related to deep sea vent microbes
- Fungi help rice plants grow big
- New strain discovered that could help clean environment
- Research on making bioplastic/more
- Discovery about how bacteria evolve stress resistance
- Soil bacterial diversity in the Arctic not much different from elsewhere
- Oral bacteria could protect against respiratory infections
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BacterioFiles Episode 14
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- Created on Sunday, 13 June 2010 00:00
- Written by Jesse Noar
In this show, I report on four exciting stories: microbial electrosynthesis, desert dust that affects ocean microbes, bacteria dividing unequally, and bacteria that can make you smarter.
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Story 1: News item/Journal paper
Story 2: News item/Journal Paper
Story 3: News item/Journal Paper
Story 4: News article 1/News article 2
Other interesting stories:
- More about microbes and the BP oil spill
- An article about microbes and climate
- Life in a subzero Arctic spring
- A modified virus that could treat childhood brain tumors
- Mutated oral bacteria could give clue to Alzheimer's
- In slime molds, the first to starve wins
- Using microbes to generate hydrogen
- Probiotic organism in breastmilk good for infant digestion
- Genome of brown algae gives clues to evolution of multicellularity and photosynthesis
- Study of bacteria that live inside fungi that live inside plants
- How microbes affect precipitation/another site
- The relationship between bacteria and obesity/another site
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BacterioFiles Episode 13
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- Created on Sunday, 30 May 2010 00:00
- Written by Jesse Noar
In this show, I report on four exciting stories: bacteria made to clean up pesticides, new findings from microbial fossils, fighting bacteria with bacteria, and cells with synthetic genomes.
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Story 1: News item 1/News item 2/Journal paper
Story 2: News item/Journal Paper
Story 3: News item/Journal Paper
Story 4: News articles 1 2 3 4 5 6 7/Journal Paper/Video
Other interesting stories:
- New method for studying metabolism of microbial communities
- Making bricks out of bacteria and sand
- Op-ed about the potential for life on Earth unrelated to the life we know
- Study about biocathodes for microbial fuel cells
- Yeast used for wine could be good for bioethanol too
- Article about bacteria and clean fuel production
- How adding good bacteria to soil could help wheat grow
- Soil microbes may "breathe" organic matter as well as minerals
- Cheese seems like a good carrier for probiotics for elderly
- Quick-evolving bacteria may be good for digestive health
- Human microbiome project stories: 1 2 3
- Bacteria share genes more with family
- Genes of bacteria that are good for plant growth
- Gut bacteria of tsetse fly could help prevent sleeping sickness
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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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BacterioFiles Episode 11
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- Category: BacterioFiles
- Created on Sunday, 02 May 2010 00:00
- Written by Jesse Noar
In this show, I report on four exciting stories: a probiotic bacteria that can fight cancer, bacteria in dust that affect asthma, microbes living in a lake of asphalt, and a census of marine microorganisms.
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Story 1: News item/Journal paper
Story 2: News item/Journal Paper
Story 3: News item 1/News item 2/Submitted Paper
Story 4: News item 1/News item 2/Slideshow
Other interesting stories:
- Plant fungal disease that uses different tactics depending on which part of the plant it’s infecting
- Using microbes to clean up groundwater pollution
- The Navy investigating ways to use microbes to power small devices
- A species of bacterium that produces lots of hydrogen gas
- Using a microbe to protect grapes from grey mold
- Study about how probiotics may not help Salmonella food poisoning
- Paper about recently-discovered salt-loving archaea found in the human intestine
- Eukaryotic plankton in the ocean actually incorporate a lot of carbon dioxide into their cells
- Article describing the job of planetary protection officer for NASA
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