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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The podcast currently has 676 episodes available.

BacterioFiles episodes:

May 21, 2011BacterioFiles Micro Edition 40 - Prompting Plant Protectors
This episode: Plants call to bacteria for help!
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Show notes:
Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
Studying the gut bacteria of premature infants
Microbes maintain Australian rock art colors
How bacteria build up on jeans after months of wearing (ew)
How gut Clostridia modulate the inflammation
Salt-loving microbe found with a new carbon metabolism pathway
New (possibly very new) group of algae discovered
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May 13, 2011BacterioFiles Micro Edition 39 - Evolving Efficient Enzymes
This episode: A bacteria-virus system for developing useful enzymes!
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Show notes:
News item/Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
Bacteria revived from 34,000-year-old salt crystals
Storing terabytes of data in bacterial cells
Software for genetically programming bacteria
Bacterium uses iron for different tasks by day and by night
Using bacteria to treat wound infections?
Measles virus could fight cancer
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May 03, 2011BacterioFiles Micro Edition 38 - Competitor Curbs Cavities
This episode: Bacteria may help prevent cavities!
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Show notes:
News item/Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
Bacteria use viruses that try to kill them to become stronger
Microbes are eating a hole in the sea floor
New yeast is better at breaking down plants for biofuel
Biofilm is very good at repelling liquids
Making beer from wild microbes
Bacteria cooperate electrically
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April 23, 2011BacterioFiles Micro Edition 37 - Single-cells Scrub Strontium
This episode: Algae may help clean up radioactive waste!
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Show notes:
News item 1/News item 2/Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
Yeasts made to communicate as if in a computer network
Engineering cyanobacteria to make hydrogen with sun's energy
Helping yeasts be more efficient at making ethanol
Using microbes to make better chocolate
Treating obesity with bacteria
Gut bacteria affect the immune system
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April 12, 2011BacterioFiles Micro Edition 36 - Innocent Invaders Inhibit Infection
This episode: Bacteria may help treat viral infection!
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Show notes:
News item 1/News item 2/Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
How bacteria repair DNA damage
Virus helps make longer-lasting batteries
Keeping track of individuals' oral bacteria
Cold-loving extremophiles may be like life might be on Europa
The importance of choanoflagellates
Bacteria in soil may help with depression
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April 03, 2011BacterioFiles Micro Edition 35 - Microbes Make Mental Modifications
This episode: Bacteria have effects on brain development!
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Show notes:
News item/Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
Bacteria cooperately electrically to consume difficult foods
Microbes living deep under the ocean
Scientists work to make bacteria programmable
Bacteria clean up metal contaminants and use them to make useful compounds
Study of using bacteriophage to treat urinary tract infection
Using protozoa to measure water cleanliness
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March 23, 2011BacterioFiles Micro Edition 34 - Social Slime’s Sorus Storage
This episode: Slime molds farm their own bacterial food!
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Show notes:
News item 1/News item 2/Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
Some bacteria could probably survive on Mars
Trying to keep our space travels from contaminating Mars
How bacteria bore into sea shells
Extracellular DNA is an important part of bacterial biofilms
Engineering cheese-maker into fuel producer
How aerial microbes affect everything
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March 14, 2011BacterioFiles Micro Edition 33 - Playing Paramecium Pong
This episode: Video games with live microbes!
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Show notes:
News item 1/News item 2/Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
Speculation about using bacteria for nanomachine communication
Bacteria thriving even in deepest explored layer of ocean crust
Infants digest milk better than adults do because of bacteria
Researchers reviving bacteria trapped in salt crystals for thousands of years
Using bacteria like a really big hard drive
Testing bacterial survival in orbit
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March 07, 2011BacterioFiles Micro Edition 32 - Virus Versus Malignancy Matrix
This episode: Virus + bacterial enzyme = cancer killer!
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Show notes:
News item/Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
Bacteria solve a (simplified) sudoku puzzle
Ape species affects gut microbe community more than diet does
Figuring out why soil bacteria are so diverse
Possibility of using bacteriophages as antibiotics
Bacteria engaged in close combat
Using bacteria to make plastic out of plant waste
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5min
February 27, 2011BacterioFiles Micro Edition 31 - Bacterial Biofertilizer
This episode: Bacteria as fertilizer!
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Show notes:
Journal paper
Other interesting stories:
Extraterrestrial viruses could have helped start life here
Using electrodes to manipulate bacteria
Plant virus helps modify plant genes
Bacteria could help tell time of drowning
Bacteria could fix cracks in concrete
Soil bacteria are still active when frozen
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FAQs about BacterioFiles:

How many episodes does BacterioFiles have?

The podcast currently has 676 episodes available.

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