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Back to SearchThe smell of soil
Episode 223
The TWiMmers explore detection of SARS-CoV-2 on surfaces in an ophthalmology examination room, the ability of stressed populations of Yersinia bacter…
5 years, 7 months ago
Biosensors in bacteria
Episode 222
Mark Martin joins TWiM to describe nano-sized parasitic bacteria that inhabit humans, and the construction of whole-cell biosensors for detecting ars…
5 years, 8 months ago
Weapon of mucus destruction, WMD
Episode 221
TWiM reveals a potential mucus-busting weapon for patients with cystic fibrosis, and bacteria in the intestinal tract that can oxidize cholesterol, l…
5 years, 8 months ago
From Mars to the vagina
Episode 220
TWiM reveals that methane-producing bacteria might survive beneath the surface of Mars, and identification of a cytopathogenic toxin in a bacterium a…
5 years, 9 months ago
Commensal for a healthy skin
Episode 219
The TWiM discusses eradicating racism in academia and STEM, and a peptide from commensal bacteria that protects skin from damage caused by MRSA
Becom…
5 years, 9 months ago
The Lengths SARS-COV-2 Will Go
Episode 218
The TWiM team explains how breathing can transmit SARS-CoV-2, and how lack of breathing leads to loss of mitochondria in a multicellular parasitic an…
5 years, 10 months ago
The chronicles of narnaviruses
Episode 217
The TWiM team explains an experimental vaccine to prevent E. coli urinary tract infections, and the remarkable three-way symbiosis of narnaviruses, b…
5 years, 10 months ago
It starts with a cough
Episode 216
The TWiM team discuses saliva as more sensitive for SARS-CoV-2 detection in COVID-19 patients than nasopharyngeal swab and how Mycobacterium tubercul…
5 years, 11 months ago
Cultural transformation and pathogen emergence
Episode 215
A ferret model for infection by SARS-CoV-2, and how Neolithization lead to emergence of a human bacterial pathogen.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio S…
5 years, 11 months ago
Masterful subversion
Episode 214
Vincent, Elio and Michael reveal the ASM COVID-19 summit, and how Salmonella injects a protein into the cell to drive suppression of the immune respo…
6 years ago