erbyfub
Champion Author
Raleigh
Posts:8,738
Points:1,678,110
Joined:Jul 2008
|
Message Posted: Apr 5, 2010 12:46:21 AM
Episode 9
Bacterial Fingerprint
Bacteria exposed to space
Fungi swapping genes
Bacteria competing for resources
|
erbyfub
Champion Author
Raleigh
Posts:8,738
Points:1,678,110
Joined:Jul 2008
|
Message Posted: Mar 21, 2010 11:25:50 PM
Episode 8
Plant-Fungus Symbiosis
Making Algae Make Medicine
Fighting Cancer with a Virus
Using bacteria to turn wood into biofuels
|
erbyfub
Champion Author
Raleigh
Posts:8,738
Points:1,678,110
Joined:Jul 2008
|
Message Posted: Mar 7, 2010 10:51:50 PM
Episode 7
Bacterial Electric Grid
Engineering Biofilms
Beewolves that use antibiotics
Bacteria making tiny magnets
Potential for life on Mars
|
erbyfub
Champion Author
Raleigh
Posts:8,738
Points:1,678,110
Joined:Jul 2008
|
Message Posted: Mar 4, 2010 7:57:46 AM
Episode 6
A bullet-shaped virus is described that could be used to fight cancer
A new genetic code is developed in E. coli
And water is purified for human use using bacteria.
|
erbyfub
Champion Author
Raleigh
Posts:8,738
Points:1,678,110
Joined:Jul 2008
|
Message Posted: Feb 11, 2010 1:04:28 AM
Episode 5
How rotifers do without sex, making diesel fuel using bacteria, a plant virus that tricks insects into spreading it, and how bacteria boost the immune system.
|
erbyfub
Champion Author
Raleigh
Posts:8,738
Points:1,678,110
Joined:Jul 2008
|
Message Posted: Jan 24, 2010 7:36:58 PM
Episode 4
This time: designing networks with slime molds, bacteria cooperating to prevent damage to the environment, one infection preventing another, and engineered bacterial clocks.
[Edited by: erbyfub at 1/24/2010 7:38:33 PM EST]
|
erbyfub
Champion Author
Raleigh
Posts:8,738
Points:1,678,110
Joined:Jul 2008
|
Message Posted: Jan 21, 2010 3:55:47 PM
Episode 3
A newly discovered giant virus in amoebae,
Engineered bacteria that target and destroy tumors,
A sample of 400 million-year-old microbial DNA,
and new ways of using viruses to modify plants
make up this episode.
|
erbyfub
Champion Author
Raleigh
Posts:8,738
Points:1,678,110
Joined:Jul 2008
|
Message Posted: Jan 21, 2010 3:48:48 PM
Episode 2
In this episode:
Swimming bacteria are able to turn very tiny gears.
A mechanism by which bacteria can produce electricity.
How exposure to microbes early in life might be able to protect people against heart disease.
How a species of bacteria could be used to prevent mosquito-borne diseases such as Dengue fever and malaria.
|
erbyfub
Champion Author
Raleigh
Posts:8,738
Points:1,678,110
Joined:Jul 2008
|
Message Posted: Jan 21, 2010 3:46:11 PM
Episode 1 of BacterioFiles
The stories this episode are about a possible symbiosis between plant-eating ants and microbes; a type of engineered bacteria that produce energy rich compounds and can self-destruct on command to release those compounds for human use; and a description of a type of immune system that some microbes have.
|