474: Stalker Cells Stop Seafood Sickness

This episode: Predatory bacteria could protect lobster farms from disease-causing bacteria! Download Episode (4.8 MB, 7 minutes) Show notes: Microbe of the episode: Gordonia rubripertincta Takeaways Antibiotics have done wonders for controlling bacterial pathogens. Many people have lived that would otherwise have died, and some industries have produced much more than they would have, particularly those involved in animal farming. However, more and more targeted pathogens are developing resistance to the antibiotics we have, and new ones are harder to discover, so alternative approaches are needed. Here, predatory bacteria take the place of antibiotics in a study on farmed spiny lobsters. These predators swim after and attach to prey bacteria, hollowing out their contents to use as nutrients to make more predators. They do not hurt the lobsters, but the study finds they do reduce the number of pathogenic prey organisms injected into the lobsters at the same time. Journal Paper: Ooi MC, Goulden EF, Smith GG, Bridle ARY 2021. 2021. Predatory bacteria in the haemolymph of the cultured spiny lobster Panulirus ornatus . Microbiology 167:001113. Other interesting stories: 3D-printing bacterial biofilms Review of latest in oncolytic (cancer-killing) viruses Email questions or comments to bacteriofiles at gmail dot com . Thanks for listening!

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474: Stalker Cells Stop Seafood Sickness is an episode from BacterioFiles by Jesse Noar.

This episode is 06:58 long.

This episode was published on Jan 23, 2023.

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