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:

January 08, 2012BacterioFiles Micro Edition 70 - Microbes Make Multiple Magnets
This episode: Some bacteria have been discovered that construct multiple types of magnet in their cells!
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Show notes:
News item 1/News item 2/Journal Paper
Other interesting stories:
Engineered bacteria grow in bullseye design
Logic gates designed in bacteria
Virus could be used as building blocks for eyes, skin, teeth
Algae could clean water and create biofuel in the process
Students modify yeast to add vitamins to bread
Bacteria could produce better sunscreen
Engineered herpes could treat breast cancer (what a treatment!)
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4min
December 31, 2011BacterioFiles Micro Edition 69 - Plants' Prokaryotic Partners
This episode: Plants open up their roots to let bacteria in!
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Show notes:
News item/Journal Paper
Other interesting stories:
Diet and its effects on gut bacteria (paper)
Electrobacteria could produce good biofuel from carbon dioxide
Viruses might have once been cells
Using bacteria to prevent soil erosion
Bacteria can change the whole world's climate
Swarming bacteria move in a coordinated manner (paper)
Gut bacteria could affect whether some drugs work or not
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4min
December 24, 2011BacterioFiles Micro Edition 68 - Crustacean Calorie Caretaker
This episode: Newly-discovered underwater crab farms its own bacterial food!
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Show notes:
News item 1/News item 2/Journal Paper
Other interesting stories:
There is probably (microbial) life on Mars--that we put there (by accident)
Cyanobacterial viruses are photosynthetic, sorta (paper)
Freshwater springs in the Dead Sea allow interesting microbial growth
Bacteria and yeast engineered to produce a new kind of diesel-like biofuel
Using soil bacteria to kill cancer
Heat-loving fungi could be good at making biofuels
Bacteria could help clean up arsenic and make better cropland
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4min
December 17, 2011BacterioFiles Micro Edition 67 - Healthful Helper Helices
This episode: Probiotic DNA can be good for our health!
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Show notes:
Journal Paper
Other interesting stories:
Bacteria could help defend coral against stress
Researchers replace half of a yeast's chromosome with synthetic DNA
Beetles use antibiotics to keep offsprings' food safe
Virus could be used to treat cancers
Root bacteria influence growth of plants (paper)
Bacteria engineered to be able to produce useful unnatural proteins
Fungi could make beech trees more colorful and pretty (paper)
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3min
December 12, 2011BacterioFiles Micro Edition 66 - Microbe-Mycelium Mutualism
This episode: Bacteria and fungi work together to explore new territory!
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Show notes:
News article/Journal Paper
Other interesting stories:
Diet affects viruses in gut a lot too
Diet may be able to treat gut disorders by manipulating bacteria
Soil bacteria may help treat cancer
Desert bacteria coordinate with the daily water cycle
Fungus makes gold nanoparticles which may kill cancer (paper)
Bacteria can protect plants against fungi and insects
Some amount of microbe exposure may keep us healthy
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5min
December 04, 2011BacterioFiles Micro Edition 65 - Superfluous Cells Stop Sniffles
This episode: Exposure to many bacteria early in life seems to prevent allergies!
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Show notes:
News article/Journal Paper
Other interesting stories:
Bacteria could produce biofuel from old newspaper
Scientists rewrite E. coli genetic code to make certain kinds of protein easily
Virus related to rabies could kill cancer in children
Probiotics seem to affect behavior (in mice, at least)
Yeast converting seaweed to biofuel quickly
Figuring out which parts of bacterial genome are essential
Panda gut bacteria may be good for making biofuels
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4min
November 27, 2011BacterioFiles Micro Edition 64 - Proving Probiotic Products
This episode: Probiotic yogurt doesn't seem to change microbial community much!
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Show notes:
News article/Journal Paper
Other interesting stories:
Breastfeeding seems to related to infants' risk of Celiac disease via gut microbes
Bacterial fossils found that seem to be 3.4 billion years old
Bacteria can make electricity from wastewater
Beneficial bacteria may be permanently lost because of antibiotics
Plant-dwelling fungi may degrade polyurethane (paper)
Vegetable oil could help bacteria clean up uranium contamination (paper)
Helping yeast resist stresses of biofuel production
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5min
November 19, 2011BacterioFiles Micro Edition 63 - Bombus Bacteria Beat Baddies
This episode: Bee colonies share gut bacteria to prevent disease!
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Show notes:
News article/Journal Paper
Other interesting stories:
Bacterial nanowires are pretty awesome at moving electrons
Yeast cells, probably like early ancestors, can get by on very little oxygen
Scientists imitate viral method of transferring genes to cells
Algae biofuels work pretty well but not awesome
Bacteria-eating bacteria seem to behave differently in different kinds of light
Bacteria could clean up mercury contamination in environment
Bacteria engineered to seek and destroy pathogens
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4min
November 13, 2011BacterioFiles Micro Edition 62 - Plant-like Polymer Production
This episode: Algae are good for making bioplastic!
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Show notes:
News article/Journal Paper
Other interesting stories:
Yeasts may make greener chemicals
Bacteria could clean up toxic chemicals from PVC production
Bacteria seem to have eaten that big oil spill more quickly than expected
How cyanobacteria stock up on energy and how this could help make hydrogen
Fungi from rainforest could degrade plastic
Frankia bacteria could produce many useful chemicals
Gut parasite could lead to advances in swimming robots
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3min
November 06, 2011BacterioFiles Micro Edition 61 - Cells Support Cellulosic Supper
This episode: Bacteria may help pandas be herbivorous!
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Show notes:
News article 1/News article 2/Journal Paper
Other interesting stories:
Fungi could help crops survive many kinds of stress
Using bacteria to get more oil out of wells
Bacteria could help fight AIDS
Fungus helps control tree-killing insect
Just one species of microbe in many different forms
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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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