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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, Elio Schaechter and Michele Swanson.

The TWiM team is amazed by the ocelloid, and an evolutionary battle for iron between mammalian transferrin and bacterial transferrin-binding protein.

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• A unicellular camera-type eye structure (PLoS One)
• Escape from iron piracy (Science)
• Iron in infection and immunity (Cell Host Micr)
• Nutritional immunity (Nat Rev Micro)

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