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The TWiM team reveal how bacteria in a shipworm’s gills help digest wood in the gut, and an approach that identifies a new antibiotic from the soil.
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Links for this episode
- Gill bacteria enable a novel digestive strategy (PNAS)
- Killing bacteria without resistance (Nature)
- An irresistable newcomer (Nature)
- Peptidoglycan synthesis animation
- 10 x 20 initiative (IDSA)
- Longitude Prize
- Image credit
- Letters read on TWiM 97
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