Episode 182
182: A micro story with macro implications
This Week in Microbiology · Vincent Racaniello
August 9, 20181h 5m
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Show Notes
The TWiM hosts reveal how to test antimicrobial susceptibility in less than 30 minutes, and a carbonate-sensitive phytotransferrin in diatoms that controls iron uptake.
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Links for this episode:
- Legionnaire's Disease with Michele Swanson
- Antibiotic susceptibility in less than 30 min (PNAS)
- S. saprophyticus growing in microfluidic chip (movie, PNAS)
- Mother machine (Jun lab)
- E. coli growth in mother machine (YouTube)
- Diatom phytotransferrin (Nature)
- CRISPR tool kit (Nat Commun)
- A Crack in Creation by Doudna and Sternberg
- CRISPR/Cas9 for undergrads (BMBE)
- John Oliver on gene editing (YouTube)
- Image credit
- Letters read on TWiM 182
Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.
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