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TWiM #134: Lipids that live forever
Design of a synchronously lysing bacterium for delivery of anti-tumor molecules in mice, and hopanoids, the lipids that live forever, brought to you …
9 years, 7 months ago
TWiM #133: Right under our noses
Insight into the biology of rhinovirus C from cryo-electron microscopy, and a novel antibiotic from a commensal bacterium that grows in the human nos…
9 years, 7 months ago
TWiM #132: Bacteria learn long division
Vincent, Elio, and Michele present cell division by longitudinal scission in an insect symbiont, and thermally activated charge transport in microbia…
9 years, 8 months ago
TWiM 131: Mice behaving badly
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Michael Schmidt
Michael and Vincent present Spotlights, brief reviews of classic papers in the Journal of Bacteriology,…
9 years, 8 months ago
TWiM #130: Interkingdom interactions at ASM Microbe
Filmed live in Boston, MA at Microbe 2016, David S. Schneider and Vanessa Sperandio talk about their work on regulation of bacterial virulence in the…
9 years, 9 months ago
TWiM #129: Dried and wrinkled, smooth and mucoid
The arrival in the US of plasmid-mediated resistance to colistin antibiotics, a last line of defense against many gram-negative bacilli, and a quorum…
9 years, 10 months ago
TWiM #128: A moonlighting phage protein
A eukaryote without a mitochondrion, and using a phage enzyme to eliminate intracellular bacteria are two topics discussed by the TWiMers on this epi…
9 years, 10 months ago
TWiM #127: Subway Snowblowers and Men in Black
The TWiM team explores microbes in snowblower vents on the ocean floor, and cleavage of antibody molecules by a Mycoplasma protease.
Image (right): P…
9 years, 11 months ago
TWiM #126: I'm not scared of zebrafish and mice and bears (oh my!)
The microbiome of hibernating bears, and zebrafish as a model for bacterial sepsis feature in this animal-centric episode of TWiM hosted by Vincent, …
9 years, 11 months ago
TWiM #125: A minimal cell operating system
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michele Swanson, and Michael Schmidt.
A deep sequencing study of commercially available probiotics, and design and synthes…
10 years ago