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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 84 - Latent Loops Limit Lupus
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- Category: BacterioFiles
- Created on Tuesday, 17 April 2012 14:11
- Written by Jesse Noar
This episode: A viral infection in mice seems to protect against lupus!
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Show notes:News item/Journal Paper
Other interesting stories:
- Engineering a new bacterial system for biofuel production
- Slime mold naturally creates model of Canadian road network
- Gut bacteria might be connected to allergies
- Venter promises many biotech advances from custom microbes
- Sometimes microbes lose a necessary ability because others around them make it unnecessary: evolution of cooperation
- Using photosynthetic eukaryotic microbes as detection method for cancer
- Phage therapy to treat serious bacterial infections
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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 83 - Annelid Archivory
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- Category: BacterioFiles
- Created on Tuesday, 10 April 2012 15:20
- Written by Jesse Noar
This episode: Discovery of a worm that eats archaea!
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Show notes:News item/Journal Paper
Other interesting stories:
- Virus has potential to treat pancreatic cancer
- River microbes could produce graphene
- Diatoms could form biosensor that glows in response to chemicals
- Creating smaller bacterial genomes for engineering by randomly removing pieces
- Measuring very slow growth deep in the ocean
- Characterizing honeybee gut bacteria (paper)
- Figuring out how exposure to bacteria helps immune system development
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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 82 - Scintillating Sea Strain
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- Category: BacterioFiles
- Created on Monday, 02 April 2012 17:06
- Written by Jesse Noar
This episode: Scientists describe iridescent sea bacteria!
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Show notes: Journal Paper/Videos
Other interesting stories:
- Appendix seems to help protect good gut bacteria populations
- Cells move in swarm just by growing and pushing water ahead of them (paper)
- Making bacteria produce another, better-smelling kind of biofuel
- Newly-discovered chlorophyll lets bacteria use low-energy light as efficiently as any
- Bacteria live well underneath glaciers
- In mice, antibiotic treatment leads to more severe asthma
- Finding new ways to engineer yeast
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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 81 - Agrobacterium Antibodies Attack AIDS
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- Category: BacterioFiles
- Created on Monday, 26 March 2012 01:06
- Written by Jesse Noar
This episode: Scientists find a way to possibly make an HIV vaccine using bacteria!
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Show notes:News item/Journal Paper
Other interesting stories:
- Bacteria may help to store excess carbon dioxide underground
- Bacteriophage needles that penetrate bacteria have iron tip
- Pathogen could be useful, produces very strong glue
- Yeast made to respond to magnets, useful for biotech
- Exploring the ocean, microscopically
- Improving knowledge of an already well-known useful bacterium
- Cold-loving yeasts: where they are and what they (could) do (paper)
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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 80 - Bacterial Breakdown Benefits Bugs
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- Category: BacterioFiles
- Created on Sunday, 18 March 2012 19:38
- Written by Jesse Noar
This episode: Bacteria help leaf-cutter ants break down their garden fertilizer!
Download Episode (3.3 MB, 3.5 minutes)
Show notes:News item/Journal Paper
Other interesting stories:
- Smoking disrupts healthy mouth bacteria, letting pathogens invade
- Seems like viral infection led to evolution of mammals
- Finding life under crust of dry desert could help find life on Mars and such
- Fungi with bacterial genes make antivirals out of crustacean shells
- Thermophiles may make good biofuel producers
- Mapping all microbes on Earth
- Making bacteria do all kinds of things
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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 79 - Stratospheric Strain's Super Sparks
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- Category: BacterioFiles
- Created on Tuesday, 13 March 2012 15:45
- Written by Jesse Noar
This episode: Finding stratospheric electricity-producing microbes!
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Show notes:News item 1/News item 2/Journal Paper
Other interesting stories:
- Probiotic bacteria may work partly due to special coating
- New microbes found in mysterious ocean caves
- Figuring out how bacteria use stickiest glue
- Studying microbes under dead seals in Arctic
- Bacteria and their size - is it ideal?
- Desert archaea allow themselves to dry out but remain viable (paper)
- Could use bacteria to treat sleeping sickness
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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 78 - Proving Prions Provide Positives
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- Category: BacterioFiles
- Created on Tuesday, 06 March 2012 20:21
- Written by Jesse Noar
This episode: Prions may actually help yeast populations survive!
Download Episode (3.5 MB, 3.75 minutes)
Show notes:News item/Journal Paper
Other interesting stories:
- Do microbiota change as species evolve apart? (paper)
- Viruses pretend to help bacteria but then take over
- Even extinguished hydrothermal vents have interesting life growing
- Fecal bacteria transplant seems effective for C. difficile infections
- Cyanobacteria as art
- Bacteria could be used to diagnose illness by changing poop color
- Fungi degrading another kind of long-lasting polymer
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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 77 - Bioluminescent Bifidus Binds Bumps
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- Category: BacterioFiles
- Created on Saturday, 25 February 2012 22:15
- Written by Jesse Noar
This episode: Using glowing bacteria to image tumors in the body!
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Show notes:News item/Journal Paper
Other interesting stories:
- Single cell eats algae and uses their photosynthetic powers
- Jelly fungus could help clean up heavy metal pollution (paper)
- Other fungi help clean up lead
- Bacteria made to produce biofuels from seaweed
- Update: A failed confirmation of bacteria that use arsenic (micro episode 21)
- A biodegradable styrofoam replacement made of fungus
- Diversity of soil microbes could help prevent crop disease (paper)
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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 76 - Glacial Growth
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- Category: BacterioFiles
- Created on Saturday, 18 February 2012 21:02
- Written by Jesse Noar
This episode: Bacteria are active even encased in ice!
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Show notes:News item/Journal Paper
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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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 75 - Personalizing Prokaryotic Protection
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- Category: BacterioFiles
- Created on Sunday, 12 February 2012 23:25
- Written by Jesse Noar
This episode: Scientists figure out how to utilize the prokaryotic immune system!
Download Episode (3.5 MB, 3.75 minutes)
Show notes:News item 1/Journal Paper
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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