363: Why Vegetables Are Good for Your Heart
The finding that Bunsen burners do not decrease deposition of microbe-containing particles, and how gut microbiota generate dinitrosyl iron...
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This Week in Microbiology (TWiM). A podcast about unseen life on Earth hosted by Vincent Racaniello and friends. Following in the path of his successful shows 'This Week in Virology' (TWiV)...
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362: When Gut Bacteria Share Chromosomes
TWiM explains how movement of DNA among gut bacteria drive large-scale genome mosaicism, and validation of a method for detection of Cyclosp...
361: Bacteria and Colon Cancer Recurrence
TWiM explains the discovery of an avirulent bacterial signature associated with the development of recurrence following colorectal cancer su...
360: Nitrogen Fixation Goes Eukaryotic
TWiM explains major implications of the link between plastic pollution and antimicrobial resistance, and the discovery of a new organelle, t...
359: Kin Killing and Metal Hunger
TWiM explains how cannibalism shapes biofilm structure and composition in Bacillus subtilis, and the importance of manganese uptake in uropa...
358: Gut Microbes and ALS
TWiM explains the connection between inflammation caused by microbial glycogen in the gut and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and how disrupt...
357: Remembering Elio at Tufts
TWiM visits Tufts University School of Medcine and are joined by John Coffin, Michael Malamy, and Verna Manni for a tribute to Elio Schaecht...
TWiM 356: Nanopore to the bone
TWiM explains how Streptococcus mitis bacteriocins drive contact-dependent lysis of S. pneumoniae facilitating transformation, and microbial...
355: Bacteria Complete Your tRNA
TWiM explains how an enhanced domestication method allows for growth of uncultured bacteria, and identification of the oncogene SLC35F2 as i...
354: How a Gut Microbe Worsens Heart Disease
TWiM explains a candidate signature of health in the gut microbial community, and how an intestinal bacterium exacerbates cardiac ischemia/r...
353: Microbial Metabolism of Food Allergens
TWiM explains how to use microbes to enhance maize yield and reduce corn rootworm damage, and how the human microbiota modulates IgE-mediate...
352: Microbial Gut Biosensors
TWiM reveals the archaeal roots of eukaryotic life, and a building a gut malabsorption biosensor with bacteria. Become a patron of TWiM. Mus...
351: Resistance Reboot
TWiM discusses the use of bacteriophage-loaded microneedle patches for targeted and minimally disruptive foodborne pathogen decontamination,...
350: TWiM Goes to College
Nancy and Maggie join TWiM to share how and why they created a freely available ebook of TWiM-based science literacy resources and classroom...
349: Punctured to Death by Spikes
TWiM explains how mechano-bactericidal surfaces made from diverse materials and patterned with spikes kill bacteria on contact, and virus-ho...
348: The Bark Side of the Microbiome
TWiM explains the finding that owning a dog during adolescence alters the microbiota and improves mental health, and the molecular basis for...
347: At Wound's Edge
TWiM explains how S. aureus pathogenicity is a dynamic, niche-specific choreography that constantly recalibrates in response to the host mic...
346: Metabolism and Porin Permeability
TWiM explains how competition for nutrients anticipates and potentially mitigate drug side effects on the gut microbiota, and metabolic cont...
345: Faster Than Rocks!
TWiM explains a biological mechanism that links sulfur and iron cycling in anoxic environments, and "swashing," a form of surface movement i...
344: Ant Yogurt and Fine Chocolate
TWiM reveals the bacteria, acids, and enzymes behind yogurt made with ants, and a defined set of microbes that reproduces attributes of fine...