BacterioFiles

By Jesse Noar

The podcast for microbe lovers: reporting on exciting news about bacteria, archaea, and sometimes even eukaryotic microbes and viruses.... more

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How many episodes does BacterioFiles have?

The podcast currently has 676 episodes available.

BacterioFiles episodes:

May 26, 2012BacterioFiles Micro Edition 90 - Prokaryote Parasites Deal Double Dose Death
This episode: Discovery of a bacterium infected by two distinct organisms at the same time!
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Show notes:
Journal Paper
Other interesting stories:
Floating rocks, microbes, and the origin of life
Diversity of plants and microbes helps prevent allergies
Probiotics help prevent antibiotic-induced diarrhea
Wind erosion is problematic both for soil and beneficial microbes
Selective nutrition and other strategies could help good bacteria compete with pathogens
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4min
May 20, 2012BacterioFiles Micro Edition 89 - Counting Cloud Communities
This episode: Sampling storm cloud microbial communities with hailstones!
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Show notes:
Journal Paper
Other interesting stories:
Newly discovered bacteria make little balls of minerals inside themselves
Scientists using bacteria to fix concrete cracks
Breastfeeding seems important for infants' bacterial health
Engineered E. coli produce lots of bioplastic (paper)
Toxic counterfeit vodka fed to microbes to make electricity
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5min
May 14, 2012BacterioFiles Micro Edition 88 - Bacteria Block Barnacle Binding
This episode: Biofilms help keep seaweed surfaces clear of barnacles!
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Show notes:
Journal Paper
Other interesting stories:
Using modified bacteria to capture and remove viruses
Bacteria are important for food flavor
Prions can actually be helpful to yeast instead of harmful
Plants release chemicals to attract helpful bacteria
Enzyme from probiotics could help treat inflammatory bowel disease
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4min
May 06, 2012BacterioFiles Micro Edition 87 - Fermenter Fixes Folate Faults
This episode: Probiotics could help prevent folate deficiency!
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Show notes:
Journal Paper
Other interesting stories:
Cyanobacteria could produce table sugar better than plants
Temperature-controlled microbial biotech
Ocean worm feeds on toxic stuff with bacterial help
New system to treat wastewater and produce biofuels
Massive amounts of old bacteria are frozen in Antarctic ice
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3min
May 01, 2012BacterioFiles Micro Edition 86 - Bacteria Boost Beta Business
This episode: Engineered bacteria help reverse type 1 diabetes in mice!
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Show notes:
News item/Journal Paper
Other interesting stories:
Making more environmentally friendly solar panels with bacteria
Multiple bacterial species can make more electricity in fuel cell than just one (paper)
Studying the spike viruses use to pierce and infect bacteria
Bacteria steadily breaking down the Titanic
Potential for using probiotic bacteria to preserve food (paper)
Using probiotics to help with heavy metal contamination, in fish at least (paper)
Potential of bacteria from Italian hydrothermal vents (paper)
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4min
April 25, 2012BacterioFiles Micro Edition 85 - Pathogen Partitions Parasitoid Populations
This episode: A virus influences the competition between two species of parasitoid wasp!
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Show notes:
Example of parasitoid manipulator/News item/Journal Paper
Other interesting stories:
Using bacteria to recapture dwindling phosphorus resources
Modifying E. coli to make pharmaceuticals better
Using bacteria to make electricity from sewage
Bacteria could carry medicine to specific targets in the body
Electric-powered bacteria could turn carbon dioxide into fuel
Bacteria living in wheat help fight off plant disease
Looking into algae for biofuels
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5min
April 17, 2012BacterioFiles Micro Edition 84 - Latent Loops Limit Lupus
This episode: A viral infection in mice seems to protect against lupus!
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Show notes:
News item/Journal Paper
Other interesting stories:
Engineering a new bacterial system for biofuel production
Slime mold naturally creates model of Canadian road network
Gut bacteria might be connected to allergies
Venter promises many biotech advances from custom microbes
Sometimes microbes lose a necessary ability because others around them make it unnecessary: evolution of cooperation
Using photosynthetic eukaryotic microbes as detection method for cancer
Phage therapy to treat serious bacterial infections
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4min
April 10, 2012BacterioFiles Micro Edition 83 - Annelid Archivory
This episode: Discovery of a worm that eats archaea!
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Show notes:
News item/Journal Paper
Other interesting stories:
Virus has potential to treat pancreatic cancer
River microbes could produce graphene
Diatoms could form biosensor that glows in response to chemicals
Creating smaller bacterial genomes for engineering by randomly removing pieces
Measuring very slow growth deep in the ocean
Characterizing honeybee gut bacteria (paper)
Figuring out how exposure to bacteria helps immune system development
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3min
April 02, 2012BacterioFiles Micro Edition 82 - Scintillating Sea Strain
This episode: Scientists describe iridescent sea bacteria!
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Show notes:
Journal Paper/Videos
Other interesting stories:
Appendix seems to help protect good gut bacteria populations
Cells move in swarm just by growing and pushing water ahead of them (paper)
Making bacteria produce another, better-smelling kind of biofuel
Newly-discovered chlorophyll lets bacteria use low-energy light as efficiently as any
Bacteria live well underneath glaciers
In mice, antibiotic treatment leads to more severe asthma
Finding new ways to engineer yeast
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4min
March 26, 2012BacterioFiles Micro Edition 81 - Agrobacterium Antibodies Attack AIDS
This episode: Scientists find a way to possibly make an HIV vaccine using bacteria!
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Show notes:
News item/Journal Paper
Other interesting stories:
Bacteria may help to store excess carbon dioxide underground
Bacteriophage needles that penetrate bacteria have iron tip
Pathogen could be useful, produces very strong glue
Yeast made to respond to magnets, useful for biotech
Exploring the ocean, microscopically
Improving knowledge of an already well-known useful bacterium
Cold-loving yeasts: where they are and what they (could) do (paper)
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4min

FAQs about BacterioFiles:

How many episodes does BacterioFiles have?

The podcast currently has 676 episodes available.

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