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:

August 20, 2011BacterioFiles Micro Edition 50 - Microbes Mop Malicious Metals
This episode: Bacteria could help plants clean up heavy metal-contaminated soils!
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Show notes:
News article/Journal Paper
Other interesting stories:
What viruses do in our bodies (besides make us sick)
Blocking CO2 fixation makes bacteria produce more hydrogen
Probiotic E. coli could prevent other E. coli from causing disease
Developing bacterial biocontrol of crop pests
Bacteria eating the ground out from under town
Oil from algae
Bacteria can survive surprising levels of radiation
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5min
August 06, 2011BacterioFiles Micro Edition 49 - Helicobacter Holds Human History
This episode: Stomach bacteria reveal some of human history!
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Show notes:
News article/Journal Paper
Other interesting stories:
Making biofuels out of brewery waste
Using bacteria to sense toxic chemical contamination of streams
Gut bacteria could influence wiring of the brain
Bacteria could prevent excess of nitrogen in pig feed
Bacteria seem to be eating plastic bits in oceans
Gut bacteria regulate influence response to influenza
Bacteria could deliver drugs to specific body parts
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4min
July 30, 2011BacterioFiles Micro Edition 48 - Microbes Motivate Mycelial Manuevers
This episode: Bacteria and predacious fungi work together to trap nematodes!
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Show notes:
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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4min
July 20, 2011BacterioFiles 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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4min
July 09, 2011BacterioFiles 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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4min
July 03, 2011BacterioFiles 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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5min
June 25, 2011BacterioFiles Micro Edition 44 - Mosquito Microbes Mitigate Malaria
This episode: Bacteria fight malaria in the bellies of mosquitoes!
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Show notes:
News item 1/News item 2/Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
Paper about probiotic that could prevent toxic shock syndrome
Growing up on a farm seems to prevent asthma--probably because of microbes
Probiotic could help treat stomach ulcers
Making biofuels out of brewery waste
Bacteria growing on old dead trees are forest's best source of nitrogen
Gut bacteria seem to affect organ function
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5min
June 19, 2011BacterioFiles Micro Edition 43 - Cells Survive Centrifuging
This episode: Microbes grow under hypergravity!
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Show notes:
News item/Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
Microbes deep underground get energy from rock
Company feeding bacteria with plant waste-derived gas to generate fuel
Discovery of protein that helps bacteria produce proteins useful to us
Coral reef bacteria could help prevent osteoporosis
Using bacteria to help test potential drugs for certain types of toxicity
Algae could clean wastewater and produce fuel at the same time
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5min
June 05, 2011BacterioFiles Micro Edition 42 - Beneficial Bowel Bugs
This episode: Helpful gut bacteria communicate with the immune system!
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Show notes:
News item/Journal paper/Review
Other interesting stories:
Cleaning up dry-cleaning chemicals with bacteria
Probiotics that could help inflammatory bowel disease
Bacteria could make plant oils into plastic
How slime mold-like bacteria move around
Microscopic predator may have stolen a gene from its prey
On bacteria commonly found in lichens
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Subscribe at iTunes, check out the show at Twitter or SciencePodcasters.orgBacterioFiles Micro Edition 36 - Innocent Invaders Inhibit Infection
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6min
June 01, 2011BacterioFiles Micro Edition 41 - Current-Catching Carbon Converters
This episode: Multiple bacterial species can use electricity!
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Show notes:
Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
Bacterial enzymes could help make plants pesticide-resistant
Nitrogen-fixing bacteria worth storing in doomsday seed vault
Dormant microbes play important roles in environment too
Using microbes to convert biofuel production waste into more biofuel
Looking in cow guts for better biofuel bacteria
Evolving E. coli into a high-pressure extremophile
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Subscribe at iTunes, check out the show at Twitter or SciencePodcasters.orgBacterioFiles Micro Edition 36 - Innocent Invaders Inhibit Infection
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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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