BacterioFiles

The podcast for microbe lovers! Reporting on exciting news about bacteria, archaea, eukaryotic microbes, and viruses. Hosted by @JesseNoar.

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480: Bait Bottlenecks Bear Bacteria https://t.co/aXtXKyVmzR

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479 - Simple microscopic animals can survive extreme radiation by ejecting damaged cells that might otherwise become cancer! https://t.co/CReee7dvH6

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478 - How family members share gut microbes across multiple generations! https://t.co/63UHd5k9CJ

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477 - Bacteriophages can hitch a ride on bacteria they don't infect to travel through soil on fungal filaments, potentially helping their carriers by infecting and killing their competitors! https://t.co/4b4WcFH6ep

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476 - Beetles inoculate bamboo with a fungus that consumes the bamboo sugars to feed the beetle larvae! https://t.co/gikeSnFPl8

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475 - New techniques allow specific modifications in certain members of a complex community of microbes, without isolating them in pure culture first! https://t.co/rIkfyYzeiA

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474 - Predatory bacteria could protect lobster farms from disease-causing bacteria! https://t.co/GtUqWLHrCf

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473 - A bacteriophage that overcomes the bacterial CRISPR/Cas immune system by interrupting the CRISPR DNA with its own genome! https://t.co/WC7ZztrNUE

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472 - Bacteria can use blobs of disordered proteins to quickly adapt to new conditions! Thanks to @Saumya_S for his contribution! https://t.co/d61ba3H4ZH

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471 - A phage both kills bacterial pathogens and selects for reduced virulence! https://t.co/kLur2Xryl0

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470 - Tiny bacteria that live on larger bacteria reduce the inflammation and gum disease the bigger microbes cause in the mouths of mice! https://t.co/OAnpuSvsG5

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469 - A virus lurking in a bacterial genome protects its host population from infection with other phages, by killing off infected cells! https://t.co/BxX250cuL6

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@BusterSHAWzZZ I'm still waiting for that research to be published. Someday!

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468 - Harmless gut microbes resist cholera with good defense or better offense! https://t.co/FEU97UcRPf

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467 - Prions in yeast can allow better adaptation to changing conditions! Thanks to @UdPrfrNAgo for contributing! https://t.co/uicAysyN3r

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466 - Bacteria are able to extract metals from rocks for industrial use, even in microgravity! https://t.co/pWt08fYL7x

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465 - Bacteria living inside soil fungus produce toxins that can protect their host from tiny predators! https://t.co/PzLw707nrF

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464 - Certain nectar-dwelling bacteria can induce pollen to germinate to access their tasty proteins! https://t.co/McTdwqTtjL

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463 - Bacteria produce a compound that causes a phage lurking in the genome of a competing species to wake up and start killing that competitor! https://t.co/EgAiqrqAJK

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462 - A eukaryote has symbionts living in it: green algae and also purple bacteria, a combo never seen before! https://t.co/VomPatmyM9