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Episode 163
This episode is all about saliva: how certain bacteria survive in it, and how swallowing saliva might cause intestinal inflammation.
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8 years, 5 months ago
Intracellular bacteria with flagella
Episode 162
The TWiM hosts and associated microbiomes review a fungus destroying salamanders in Europe, and genes for flagella in intracellular bacteria.
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8 years, 5 months ago
Eros, a bacterial aphrodisiac
Episode 161
From the TWiM team, a discussion of Hurricane Harvey microbiology, and a bacterial enzyme that induces eukaryotic mating.
Hosts:
Vincent Racaniello,…
8 years, 6 months ago
On the road to virus
Episode 160
The TWiM team provides an update on Zika virus, and reveals a plasmid on the road to becoming a virus.
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Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, a…
8 years, 7 months ago
Immunophage synergy
Episode 159
The TWiM team pays a tribute to Chris Condayan, and investigates the synergy between virus and the innate immune system for clearing bacterial pneumo…
8 years, 7 months ago
The bottom line
Episode 158
The TWiM team considers a report on prokaryotic viral DNA in mammalian brain, and how diarrhea is beneficial, by clearing enteric pathogens.
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…8 years, 8 months ago
Back to the ancestor
Episode 157
The TWiMbionts explore the role of bacteria in the genesis of moonmilk, and how ancient host proteins can be used to engineer resistance to virus inf…
8 years, 8 months ago
TWiM #156: Gifted microbes and defensive symbiosis
The TWiM team explains the use of microbial genome mining to identify new drugs, and how a bacterial symbiont protects flies against parasitoid wasps…
8 years, 8 months ago
TWiM #155: Living in the stomach of a cell
Michele updates the TWiMers on Legionella in the Flint water supply, and Elio informs us about how horizontally acquired biosynthesis genes boost the…
8 years, 9 months ago
TWiM #154: Rigor, lotteries, and moonshots
At Microbe 2017 in New Orleans, the TWiM team speaks with Arturo Casadevall about his thoughts on the pathogenic potential of a microbe, rigorous sci…
8 years, 9 months ago