BacterioFiles Micro Edition 60 - Making Mysterious Microbial Missives

This episode: Sending secret messages with glowing bacteria!

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Show notes:
News article 1/News article 2/News Article 3/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:
**Stomach bacteria seem to protect against asthma
**Microbes have nearly boiling-temp cellulose-digesting enzyme
**Navy probes powered by bacteria
**Using algae that made fossil fuels as clues to produce new biofuels
**Carbon dioxide could make soil microbes produce more greenhouse gases
**Debate about whether viruses are separate branch of life
**Dry rot fungus could help make better biofuels

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 59 - Brine Boosts Bacterial Bond-Breaking

This episode: Bacteria and salt water combine forces to produce hydrogen gas for fuel!

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Show notes:
News article 1/News article 2/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:
**Predatory bacteria could treat infections with other bacteria
**Worm discovered depending on bacteria - symbiosis is 500 myo
**Bacteria help clean oil spills so plants can grow
**Salmonella bacteria could help make life-saving vaccines
**Salt-loving microbes have enzymes that could be useful for biofuels
**Marsupial gut microbes break down food without producing methane - could be good for cows
**Belly Button Biodiversity Project

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 58 - Baculovirus Blocks Bug Behavior

This episode: Viruses take over caterpillars' behavior!

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Show notes:
News article 1/News article 2/Journal Paper

Wired article on various mind-controlling parasites

Other interesting stories:
**Wood-digesting enzyme in bacteria could help make biofuels
**Slime mold likes to eat herbal sleeping pill
**Virus that could treat lung cancer
**Predatory bacteria could treat difficult infections
**Plant-symbiont bacteria could make useful chemicals
**Engineered virus could help make highly efficient solar panels
**Combining technologies to make biofuels and stuff

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 57 - Rods Reduce Radioactivity

This episode: Bacteria extend little hairs that could help clean up radioactive contamination!

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Show notes:
News article 1/News article 2/News article 3/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:
**Figuring out which bacteria protect plants against disease (paper)
**Prescription drugs killing bacteria in lakes
**Pathogen could be source of new antibiotics
**Figuring out how algae replicate quickly in low-nutrient water
**Bacteria might be breaking down plastic in oceans
**Bacteria clean and restore important art
**Treating plant disease with bacteriophages (paper)

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BacterioFiles Micro Edition 56 - Cells Survive Synthetic Substitution

This episode: Evolving bacteria to use a synthetic base in its DNA!

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Show notes:
News article/Journal Paper

Other interesting stories:
**Fungi could reduce need for fertilizer
**Convincing photosynthesizers to make more hydrogen
**Bacteria can use caffeine as food
**Bacteria can induce rainfall
**Creating synthetic circuits in bacteria
**Bacteria actually police their community to punish cheaters
**Cyanobacteria programmed to secrete biofuels, making harvest easy

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