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TWiM #74: It came from the Siberian permafrost
Vincent, Elio, and Michael discuss a huge 30,000 year old virus recovered from Siberia, and nested symbiosis facilitated by horizontal gene transfer …
12 years ago
TWiM #73: Eyeing root nodule development
Vincent, Michael, and Michele discuss how soil-dwelling bacteria induce the formation of root nodules on legumes via a protein called CYCLOPS.
12 years, 1 month ago
TWiM #72: The benefits of virulence
Vincent, Elio, Michael, and Michele review how microbial virulence can be increased as a consequence of community surveillance and adaptation to macr…
12 years, 1 month ago
TWiM #71: Colon cancer's little shop of horrors
Vincent, Michael, and Michele explain how the gut microbiome modulates colon tumorigenesis, and regulation of intestinal macrophage function by the m…
12 years, 2 months ago
TWiM #70: A paroxysmal cough
Vincent, Elio, Michael, and Michele discuss evidence that the acellular pertussis vaccine fails to prevent infection and transmission in nonhuman pri…
12 years, 3 months ago
TWiM #69: Bacterial DNA in the human genome
Vincent, Elio, Jo, and Michele review evidence for bacterial DNA integrated into the human genome, and control of the symbiont population in an insec…
12 years, 4 months ago
TWiM #68: The fungus among us
Vincent, Elio, Michael, and Michele discuss the amazingly high level of intergenera gene exchange among haloarchaea in an Antarctic lake, and the div…
12 years, 4 months ago
TWiM #67: Black mushrooms and RNA thermosensors
Vincent, Elio, and Michael discuss how temperature triggers Neisseria menigitidis immune evasion, and protection of mice from ionizing radiation by f…
12 years, 5 months ago
TWiM #66: The shape of a container
Vincent, Elio, Michael, and Michele discuss the curious outer membrane vesicles of Neisseria meningitides, and sources of Clostridium difficile infec…
12 years, 5 months ago
TWiM #65: Leanness is transmissible
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Michelle Swanson.
Vincent and Michelle reveal how the human gut microbiota can modulate obesity in mice.
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12 years, 6 months ago