288: Cancer and E. coli
This Week in Microbiology
English - June 09, 2023 22:55 - 1 hour - 46.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 495 ratingsLife Sciences Science Natural Sciences asm society bacteria microbes microbeworld microbiology racaniello twim Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Links for this episode Colorectal cancer and E. coli (Nature) Natural products from ancient bacterial genomes (Science) Underexplored bacteria reservoirs of antimicrobial lipopeptides (Front Chem) Fries With That Mammoth Burger? (Mother Jones) 25-40 million year old spores (Science) 250 million year old bacterium from salt crystal (Nature) 1918 influenza with Jeffery Taubenberger (TWiV 966) Take the TWiM Listener survey!Music used on TWiM is by Ronald Jenkees
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