This week, Ash tells us about a mysterious flesh-eating bacteria that’s appeared near Melbourne, and the disease it causes – Buruli ulcer. In our SNPit, we talk about spider silk, and how it could be the material of the future.


Read more about Buruli Ulcer at the links below:

• Buruli ulcer: Review of a Neglected Skin Mycobacterial Disease
• WHO: Buruli ulcer Factsheet
• Australia has a Flesh-Eating Bacteria Problem

Interested in reading more about spider silk? Check out these links!

• Silk Feeding as an Alternative Foraging Tactic in a Kleptoparasitic Spider Under Seasonally Changing Environments
• Spider Silk Violin Strings
• 1 Million Spiders Make Rare Golden Cloth
• Artificial Spider Silk: Why You Should Care About it
• A Marine Photosynthetic Microbial Cell Factory as a Platform for Spider Silk Production

Music:

AhDah Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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