MicrobeWorld

BacterioFiles Episode 14

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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