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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

BacterioFiles Micro Edition 23 - Dry Dry Desert Dwellers

This episode: Bacteria grow on quartz stones in the driest hot place on Earth!

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Show notes:
Journal paper

Other interesting stories:
**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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Labels: bacteria, biofilms, cyanobacteria, ecology, environment, extremophiles, photosynthesis

Sunday, December 12, 2010

BacterioFiles Micro Edition 22 - Shocking Shewanella

This episode: Bacteria form electric nanowires!

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Show notes:
News items: 1/2/Journal paper

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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Labels: bacteria, biofuels, biomachines, bioreactors, biotechnology, climate change, electricity, environment, proteins, respiration

Monday, December 6, 2010

BacterioFiles Micro Edition 21 - Bacteria Belie Building Block Basics

This episode: Bacteria unlike any other known life form!

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Show notes:
News items: 1/2/3/4/Journal paper

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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Labels: astrobiology, bacteria, bacteriophages, bioremediation, environment, evolution, extremophiles, proteins, regulation, respiration, space, viruses

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

BacterioFiles Micro Edition 20 - Archaea Advanced Apart

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

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Show notes:
Journal paper

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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Labels: animals, archaea, archaeobiology, bacteria, eukaryotes, evolution, genes, genetics, plants, symbiosis
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