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Episode 193
The TWiM team explore how Lactobacillus reuteri can rescue social deficits in three mouse models of autism spectrum disorder, and the role of Salmone…
7 years, 2 months ago
A Qtip for phages
Episode 192
The TWiM team reveals an extremely low rate of mutation in a 2500 year old, 185 acre fungus in Michigan, and how a host-produced quorum sensing autoi…
7 years, 2 months ago
By the pulp of their teeth
Episode 191
The TWiM team reveals the oldest human plague from 4,900 years ago in Sweden, and engineering E. coli to become an endosymbiont in yeast, modeling th…
7 years, 3 months ago
Exosomes in your nose and in your gut
Episode 190
The TWiM-opods consider two stories about exosomes, vesicles that are shed from cells: those that eliminate airway pathogens, and those from the plan…
7 years, 4 months ago
Salmonella BonJovi
Episode 189
The TWiM team considers the state of the world's fungi as revealed by a report from the Kew Royal Botanical Gardens, and how Salmonella loses motilit…
7 years, 4 months ago
Turducken antibiotics
Episode 188
The TWiM rock stars show how to modify gram-positive antibiotics so they can kill gram-negative cells, and bacteria that have both DNA and RNA in the…
7 years, 5 months ago
Rounding up the bees
Episode 187
The TWiM people reveal that phages must cooperate to overcome CRISPR-Cas defenses, and the effect of the herbicide glyphosate on the gut microbiome o…
7 years, 5 months ago
Crypto-metamorphosis
Episode 186
The TWiM team describe the involvement of a microbiome in snail metamorphosis, and using Listeria to kill tumors.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael …
7 years, 6 months ago
There's no moa Moa
Episode 185
The TWiM team considers the increasing tolerance of Enterococcus to handwash alcohols, and how the study of DNA in ancient dung reveals the diet and …
7 years, 6 months ago
CRISPR-Cas immune systems
Episode 184
Sam Sternberg discusses his work on exploring and exploiting CRISPR-Cas immune systems, beginning as a graduate student with Jennifer Doudna, at a bi…
7 years, 7 months ago