BacterioFiles Episode 7

In this show, I report on five exciting stories: a bacterial electric grid, engineering biofilms, beewolves that use antibiotics, tiny bacterial magnets, and microbial life's potential on Mars.

(Image credit: Johannes Kroiss and Martin Kaltenpoth, MPI for Chemical Ecology, Jena)

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Intro
Story 1
Story 2
Story 3
Story 4
Story 5
Ending Comments

Show notes:
Story 1: News item 1/News item 2/Journal paper
Story 2: Journal paper
Story 3: News item/Journal paper
Story 4: News item/Journal paper
Story 5: News item/Pre-Journal paper

Other interesting stories:
**A marine species’ genome shows that it is missing many genes but it can fix a lot of nitrogen

**A company, Osprey Biotechnics, is doing many cool things with bacteria

**A survey of intestinal microbes suggests the more the better
**Extremophiles in Yellowstone
**Nanofactories monitor bacterial communication
**Engineering bacteria to produce bee silk
**Getting corn to work with bacteria to fix its own nitrogen
**As microscopes watch bacteria, a new micro-ear could listen to them
**Using soil fungi to compost waste plastics
**Traces of microbes found to have colonized meteor crater
**Using bacteria to prevent food spoilage
**How an ocean organism turns carbon dioxide into sugar
**Intestinal microbes influence obesity
**Organism switches between amoeba-like and swimming cell

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