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365: Bacteria Inside a Fungus Sabotage Plant Defenses

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364: DNA Damage as Defense Against Bee Pathogens

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363: Why Vegetables Are Good for Your Heart

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362: When Gut Bacteria Share Chromosomes

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361: Bacteria and Colon Cancer Recurrence

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360: Nitrogen Fixation Goes Eukaryotic

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359: Kin Killing and Metal Hunger

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358: Gut Microbes and ALS

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357: Remembering Elio at Tufts

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TWiM 356: Nanopore to the bone

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355: Bacteria Complete Your tRNA

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354: How a Gut Microbe Worsens Heart Disease

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353: Microbial Metabolism of Food Allergens

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352: Microbial Gut Biosensors

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351: Resistance Reboot

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350: TWiM Goes to College

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349: Punctured to Death by Spikes

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348: The Bark Side of the Microbiome

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347: At Wound's Edge

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346: Metabolism and Porin Permeability

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345: Faster Than Rocks!

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344: Ant Yogurt and Fine Chocolate

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343: Nucleotides to the Defense

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342: The Microbiome, Pancreatic Cancer, and Sleep Quality

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341: Sea Star Wasting Disease

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340: Microbes in Trees and Plants

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339: Missing the Company of Elio

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338: Rewriting the Code of Life

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337: Lifestyles of the Plasmids

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336: The Volatilome of Biofluids

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335: Slip Slidin' Away

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334: Fungal Smuggle

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333: When Mutualists Murder

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332: Fibromyalgia Pain and the Gut Microbiome

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331: Radar Love in Bacteria

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330: More mouth Microbiology

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329: Bacteria Hunt With Grappling Hooks

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328: Capturing Shigella With Filopodia

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327: Freezing and Anti-Freezing With Bacteria

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326: I Have One Word For You: PETase!

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325: Microbes Making Methane

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324: Back To School for TWiM

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323: Better Concrete With Microbes

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322: Photohydrolysis Decontamination Reduces Healthcare-associated Infections

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321: The Microbes in Your Food

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320: Rockstars of USAMRIID

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319: The Dark Side of the Rumen

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318: How To Pick a Winner

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317: Bat White-nose Syndrome

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316: Food Addiction and the Gut Microbiome

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315: How Pseudomonas Became A Global Pathogen

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314: Microbes Sculpt Our Planet and Manage Inflammation

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313: Could Fungal Pathogens Outsmart US?

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312: Cry Havoc!, and Let Slip the Phages of Healing

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311: Bacteria, beware of siderophore-antibiotic hybrids

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310: Starvation vs Dehydration: Who Loses, Who Wins?

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309: Stomach Acid Can Be Your Friend

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308: Living in a Community World

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307: Attaching and Effacing on a Pedestal

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306: Spirulina Smoothies

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305: The Marvel of MAC

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304: A New blue cheese-making fungus

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303: Can Our Microbiome Break Our Hearts?

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302: Itching and Scratching and New Antibiotics

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301: Another Year is Microbial

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300: Marvels of Microbiology

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299: Teaching with TWiM

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298: Impact of Lung Microbiome and Racial Disparities on Asthma

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297: Bacterial-electronic Sensor Pill

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296: Bacterial Channels in Plant Cells

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295: Uncultured and Unmutable

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294: You'll Scream After Ice Cream

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293: Aerosol phage therapy, alpha-gal aptamers for MRSA

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292: Breast Milk Bioactives

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291: Biogeography of Tectonics and Teeth

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290: Houston, We Have Mimi Goldschmidt

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289: Viral Defense and Counter-Defense

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288: Cancer and E. coli

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287: When Replicas Do Not Replicate

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286: Integrons and Invasion

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285: How Plague Got Deadly

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284: Flies, Pigs, and Squid

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283: Quorum Sensing In The Gut

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282: At-home evolution with yeast

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281: Microbes Making Jet Fuel

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280: They Forget To Divide

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279: A Road Map For Successful Phage Therapy

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278: Bacteria Sing The Blues

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277: To Stop or Not To Stop

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276: Bacterial Multicellularity Near An Underground Stream

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275: The Myth of Clonality

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274: Bacterial Endosymbionts Block Giant Viruses

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273: The Value of Wiping

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272: Metabolism's Got Rhythm

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271: Microbe vs Microbe

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270: Magnets and Salt Improve Plastics Production by Archaea

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269: Bacterial But Not Microbial

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268: Aspergillus and Aspergillum

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267: The Honey Badger of Pathogens With Heran Darwin

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266: Bacteria That Can Record