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This Week in Microbiology

This Week in Microbiology is a podcast about unseen life on Earth hosted by Vincent Racaniello and friends. Following in the path of his successful shows 'This Week in Virology' (TWiV) and 'This Week ... Read more

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292: Breast Milk Bioactives

292: Breast Milk Bioactives

TWiM reveals that breast milk bioactives are essential for development of the infant microbiome and immunity, and how ca... Read more

11 Aug 2023

58mins

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291: Biogeography of Tectonics and Teeth

291: Biogeography of Tectonics and Teeth

TWiM explains how photoferrotrophic bacteria initiated plate tectonics over 2500 million years ago, and how two bacteria... Read more

29 Jul 2023

1hr 1min

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290: Houston, We Have Mimi Goldschmidt

290: Houston, We Have Mimi Goldschmidt

From ASM Microbe 2023 in Houston, TWiM speaks with Mimi Goldschmidt about her remarkable career in microbiology which in... Read more

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289: Viral Defense and Counter-Defense

289: Viral Defense and Counter-Defense

TWiM highlights viral defense and counter-defense: cGAS mediated ubiquitination to counter infection, and viral sponges ... Read more

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288: Cancer and E. coli

288: Cancer and E. coli

TWiM describes a potential connection between a bacterial protein that damages DNA, and human cancers, and how to synthe... Read more

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287: When Replicas Do Not Replicate

287: When Replicas Do Not Replicate

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286: Integrons and Invasion

286: Integrons and Invasion

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285: How Plague Got Deadly

285: How Plague Got Deadly

TWiM reveals a new type of satellite virus that requires only phage tails for producing infectious virus particles, and ... Read more

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284: Flies, Pigs, and Squid

284: Flies, Pigs, and Squid

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283: Quorum Sensing In The Gut

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