BacterioFiles Micro Edition 48 - Microbes Motivate Mycelial Manuevers

This episode: Bacteria and predacious fungi work together to trap nematodes!

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Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:
**Using bacteria to extract useful rare metals
**Growing entire communities of microbes taken from our guts
**When we are stressed, our gut microbes are affected
**Breastmilk and its prebiotics
**Using neutron scattering to investigate bacterial photosynthesis
**Multi-bacterium approach to biofuels
**Another virophage discovered

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 47 - Modeling Meals' Microbiota Modifications

This episode: Modeling how our gut communities change with diet!

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Show notes:
Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:
**Enzymes from soil microbes may help biofuel production
**Using bacteria to fight cancer
**Probiotics might help protect athletes from free radicals
**Good gut bacteria may fight off the flu
**Using E. coli to produce useful amounts of biofuel
**Viruses as another domain of life?

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 46 - Better Bacterial Bioplastic

This episode: Making bioplastic with industrial exhaust gas!

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Show notes:
Journal paper

Other interesting stories:
**Getting a virus to improve mouse memory
**Tiny virus protects zooplankton against much larger virus
**Cold-weather algae produce mucusy antifreeze to make ice more homey
**Bacteria help plant seeds resist salt stress
**Are people too afraid of bacteria?
**Making therapeutical viruses invisible to immune system interference

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 45 - Partners Produce Prion-Pulverizing Proteins

This episode: Some lichens can degrade environmental prions!

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Show notes:
News item/Journal paper/Actual test of enzyme application

Other interesting stories:
**E. coli quickly evolves to withstand high pressures
**Developing fungi deadly to insect pests and disease vectors
**Bacteria could help carry materials for nanofabrication
**Engineering E. coli to produce biofuel
**Fungus-fighting fungus could treat diseases of plants and people
**Eukaryotic microbe has seven different sexes

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