The TWiM team reveal how bacteria in a shipworm’s gills help digest wood in the gut, and an approach that identifies a new antibiotic from the soil.

Links for this episode:

Gill bacteria enable a novel digestive strategy (PNAS)

Killing bacteria without resistance (Nature)

An irresistable newcomer (Nature)

Peptidoglycan synthesis animation

10 x 20 initiative (IDSA)

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