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This Week in Microbiology — 359 episodes

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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

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256: Antiviral Hotspots and Desiccation Tolerance

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264: Antimicrobial Antipsychotics

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263: Lavender and Catheters

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262: Spot on With T4SS Modulators

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261: Overwhelming Microbial Greatness

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260: Carnivorous Vulture Bees

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259: Sea Sawdust

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258: A Tick's Meal

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257: I have one word for you: plastics

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256: An mRNA Vaccine Against Ticks

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255: Fleaing The Plague

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254: Episymbionts Are Good For You

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253: Cell growth and cell size with Petra Levin

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252: Electrifying microbial fuel cells

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251: Biofilms, Coronaviruses, and a Shigella Vaccine

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250: E-scaffolds and paper stickers

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249: Phage-pathogen and toxin-antitoxin conflicts

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248: Borgs Are Real

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247: Therapy With Paleofeces and Phages

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246: Intracellular niche and passage

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245: Bacteria that protect bees from fungi

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244: Chewing for chicha

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243: Beef and bacillus

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242: Sourdough Starter Microbiomes

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241: What Does Flu Do to Your Poo?

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240: Aspirin, colorectal cancer, and Fusobacterium

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239: The Phoenix of Bacteria

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238: Parkinson's disease gut microbiome

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237: Ten years of TWiM, a quality quorum

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236: Gossamer wings and symbionts on the sea bottom

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235: Green algae and fatty acids

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234: Corkscrewing through snot

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233: Antivirals made by bacteria

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232: Microbial nanowires

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231: It's a microbe-eat-microbe world

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230: Ancient bacterial DNA

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229: Dirt is not simple

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228: Black in Microbiology with Ninecia Scott and Chelsey Spriggs

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227: The light and dark sides of the fungal world

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226: Two microbes you might not know

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225: Lag phase is no slouch

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224: One hundred million year old bacteria

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223: The smell of soil

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222: Biosensors in bacteria

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221: Weapon of mucus destruction, WMD

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220: From Mars to the vagina

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219: Commensal for a healthy skin

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218: The lengths SARS-COV-2 will go

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217: The chronicles of narnaviruses

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216: It starts with a cough

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215: Cultural transformation and pathogen emergence

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214: Masterful subversion

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213: Fugitive emissions

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212: A coronavirus outbreak and IRF4 deficiency in Whipple's disease

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211: Bacteria, colon cancer and fire blight

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210: The Waze of microbes

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209: Resuscitating persisters and flagellotrophic phage

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208: Georgia Tech microbial

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207: Partnerships to Advance Public Health

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206: Bacteria send nucleotide signals

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205: Asgards meet the Tardigrades

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204: Programmable bacteria for antitumor immunity

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203: A magnetotactic consortium under the sea

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202: This frass doesn't stink

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201: Microbiology papers for first year students

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200: In the company of Elio

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199: PhD Balance

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198: Unexpectedly pathogenic bacteriophages

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197: Intercellular microbial trade

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196: I hear you

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195: Gingipain in the Alzheimer brain

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194: Standard imperial procedure

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193: Persisters

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192: A Qtip for phages

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191: By the pulp of their teeth

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190: Exosomes in your nose and in your gut

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189: Salmonella BonJovi

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188: Turducken antibiotics

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187: Rounding up the bees

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186: Crypto-metamorphosis

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185: There's no moa Moa

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184: CRISPR-Cas immune systems

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183: Two symbioses

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182: A micro story with macro implications

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181: Dr. Warhol's Periodic Table of Microbes

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180: Microbecentricity with Mark O. Martin

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179: Viable but not culturable

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178: Corals are sexy with Christina Kellogg

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177: Microbial sibling conflict

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176: Elio has lots of colanic acid

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175: Neomycin is antiviral

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174: A Gathering Typhoid Storm

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173: Gee whiz in style

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172: Unfolding relaxases and soil malacidins

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171: If you give a bee a fungus

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170: Rats, lice, and nanoparticles

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169: Breatharian Bacteria

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TWiM #168: The lesser of two weevils

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TWiM #167: I have one word for you: Flink

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TWiM #166: Dark fermentation

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TWiM #165: Pumping Copper

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TWiM #164: Indiana Quorum

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TWiM #163: Saliva and sptR/S

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TWiM #162: Intracellular bacteria with flagella

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TWiM #161: Eros, a bacterial aphrodisiac

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TWiM #160: On the road to virus

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TWiM #159: Immunophage synergy

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TWiM #158: The bottom line

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TWiM #157: Back to the ancestor

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TWiM #156: Gifted microbes and defensive symbiosis

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TWiM #155: Living in the stomach of a cell

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TWiM #154: Rigor, lotteries, and moonshots

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TWiM #153: Covert pathogenesis

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TWiM #152: Wooden steps

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TWiM #151: Bat and moth antimicrobials

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TWiM #150: Microbiology is where it's at

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TWiM #149: You're going to learn R

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TWiM #148: Neanderthal Dentistry

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TWiM #147: The Public Goods Dilemma

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TWiM #146: Viral arbitrium

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TWiM Special: Q fever with Robert Heinzen

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TWiM #145: Anything but academic

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TWiM #144: Did eukaryotes invent anything?

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TWiM #143: E-scaffolds and receptor transfer

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TWiM #142: A membrane-thickness caliper

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TWiM #141: Nutritional immunity and polymicrobial infections

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TWiM 140: Small town, big science

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TWiM #139: Frackibacter and sticky fingers

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TWiM #138: Learning to love uranium and the A-baum

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TWiM #137: The battle for oxygen

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TWiM #136: Diderms and then monoderms

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TWiM #135: Unruly individuals and their unruly friends

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TWiM #134: Lipids that live forever

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TWiM #133: Right under our noses

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TWiM #132: Bacteria learn long division

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TWiM 131: Mice behaving badly

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TWiM #130: Interkingdom interactions at ASM Microbe

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TWiM #129: Dried and wrinkled, smooth and mucoid

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TWiM #128: A moonlighting phage protein

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TWiM #127: Subway Snowblowers and Men in Black

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TWiM #126: I'm not scared of zebrafish and mice and bears (oh my!)

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TWiM #125: A minimal cell operating system

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TWiM #124: Fungal pirates

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TWiM #123: A microbial MAGE

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TWiM #122: Mayonii, microRNAs and the microbiome

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TWiM #121: A plague of pathogens

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TWiM #120: Snakes in trouble

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TWiM #119: Power of one

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TWiM #118: Spore-drops keep fallin' on my head

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TWiM #117: Finding the comammox

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TWiM #116: Chewates and coconuts

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TWiM #115: Profiling the Poglianos

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TWiM #114: Milestones in Blue

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TWiM #113: Waves of Change

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TWiM #112: Mushroom pickers and mushroom kickers

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TWiM #111: Ancientbiotics and modernbiotics

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TWiM #110: Exploring unseen life with unpronounceable words

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TWiM #109: Precision killing

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TWiM #108: Vaccine in the time of cholera

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TWiM #107: The battle in your bladder

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TWiM #106: Lawn mower disease

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TWiM #105: Real bugs with legs

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TWiM #104: Feed me polyamines, biofilm

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TWiM #103: The battle for iron

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TWiM #102: Happiness is the spore-formers in your gut

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TWiM #101: The MRSA in your home

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TWiM #100: Omnis cellula e cellula

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TWiM #99: Careers in Biodefense

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TWiM #98: Bacteria and eukaryotes get horizontal

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TWiM #97: There's gold in them hills

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TWiM #96: A lean, mean sequencing machine

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TWiM #95: A microbe lover in San Diego

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TWiM #94: Nitrochondria

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TWiM #93: Worming in on bacteria

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TWiM #92: Flying biofilms

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TWiM #91: Rats, viruses, and bacteria

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TWiM #90: Think globally, act locally

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TWiM #89: Microbial handoffs

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TWiM #88: A century of excellence in microbiology

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TWiM #87: Avogadro, archaeal fossils, and ICAAC

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TWiM #86: Blurring the line between organelle and endosymbiont

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TWiM #85: Oscillation in the ocean and a Verona integron

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TWiM #84: Microbiology Down Under

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TWiM #83: Illuminating tuberculosis and cryptococcosis

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TWiM #82: Betrayal and compromise

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TWiM #81: Cold iron is the master of them all

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TWiM #80: Hurling fleas and designer chromosomes

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TWiM #79: A community of microbiologists

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TWiM #78: A bacterium grows in Brooklyn

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TWiM #77: Zombie plants and no pain, no gain

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TWiM #76: Genetic biopixels and a pathogenic sweet tooth

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TWiM #75: Pellicles on pickle jars

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TWiM #74: It came from the Siberian permafrost

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TWiM #73: Eyeing root nodule development

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TWiM #72: The benefits of virulence

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TWiM #71: Colon cancer's little shop of horrors

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TWiM #70: A paroxysmal cough

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TWiM #69: Bacterial DNA in the human genome

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TWiM #68: The fungus among us

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TWiM #67: Black mushrooms and RNA thermosensors

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TWiM #66: The shape of a container

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TWiM #65: Leanness is transmissible

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TWiM #64: URI and UTI at ICAAC in Denver

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TWiM #63: Superantigens, S. aureus, and the armpit microbiome

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TWiM #62: Breaking bad and protein chain mail

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TWiM #61: The irony of probiotics

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TWiM #60: Microbial electrochemistry and diversity-generating retroelements

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TWiM #59: Are viruses part of our immune system?

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TWiM #58: The brain microbiome?

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TWiM #57: Updating the human gut microbiome to degrade seaweed

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TWiM #56: Live at ASM in Denver

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TWiM #55: In the copper room

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TWiM #54: Dueling injectors and the microgenderome

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TWiM #53: Live in Manchester

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TWiM #52: Clinical microbiology with Ellen Jo Baron

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TWiM #51: Cave science with Hazel Barton

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TWiM #50: These things aren't even bacteria!

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TWiM #49: Grape-like Clusters

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TWiM #48: It's all about direction

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TWiM #47: Resistance on the surface

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TWiM #46: Spore!

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TWiM #45: Secreted nucleic acids RIG a STING

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TWiM #44: Phage interruptus

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TWiM #43: Bacterial caveolae and zapping acne with phages

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TWiM #42: Staphylococcus, a three-star pathogen

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TWiM #41: ICAAC live in San Francisco

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TWiM #40: A mecca for microbiology

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TWiM #39: What Darwin never knew

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TWiM #38: The sound of whooping cough

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TWiM #37: Microbial Jekyll and Hyde

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TWiM #36: Domesticating a pathogen

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TWiM #35: Ohne hauch

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TWiM #34: Doing the DISCO with Emiliania

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TWiM #33: Tuning the immune organ

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TWiM #32: Not the shadow biosphere

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TWiM 31: Screen door on a submarine

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TWiM #30: Unraveling melioidosis and insulin resistance

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TWiM #29: Death and an iron-loaded spike

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TWiM #28: Not unorganized bags of enzymes

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TWiM #27: An inflamed gut is good for Salmonella

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TWiM #26: Suum cuique

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TWiM #25: Magnetotactic bacteria and totally drug resistant TB

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TWiM #24: This year in microbiology

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TWiM #23: Fighting antibiotics with toxic gas and starvation

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TWiM #22: Microbiology 911

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TWiM #21: Symbiotic margheritas

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TWiM #20: Facebook for bacteria

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TWiM #19: Your microbiome is what you eat

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TWiM #18: Escherichia coli K-12, an emerging pathogen?

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TWiM #17: Debugging endosymbiosis

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TWiM #16: ICAAC Live

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TWiM #15: Microbial long distance relationships

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TWiM #14: Vomocytosis and microbial transistors

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TWiM #13: Probiotics and inflammasomes: Telling good bacteria from the bad

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TWiM #12: Photothermal nanoblades and genome engineering

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TWiM #11: Chickens, antibiotics, and asthma

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TWiM #10: A symbiotic cloaking device

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TWiM #9: Bean sprouts and E. coli O104:H4

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TWiM # 8: Live in NOLA

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TWiM #7: Cycles of life and death, light and dark

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TWiM #6: Antibacterial therapy with bacteriophage: Reality or fiction?

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TWiM #5: Mercury-methylating Desulfovibrio and antimicrobial nanoparticles

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TWiM #4: Cantaloupes and Salmonella gastroenteritis

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TWiM #3: Anthrax, genomics and the FBI inquiry

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TWiM #2: The plague, microbial virulence and the gut microbiome

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TWiM #1: Neisseria LINEs up