TWiM reveals a potential mucus-busting weapon for patients with cystic fibrosis, and bacteria in the intestinal tract that can oxidize cholesterol, leading to lower levels of the lipid in blood.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Elio Schaechter, Michele Swanson and Michael Schmidt
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- Biofilm eradication with nitric oxide release (ACS Inf Dis)
- Pseudomonas quorum sensing network (Protein)
- Cholesterol metabolism by gut bacteria (Cell Host Microbe)
- Microbes might (Harvard Gazette)
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Cool show on Biofilms as usual and nice to get away from politics once in a while here on microbe.tv. But don’t forget there is a Yersinia Pestis scare in Colorado and China that is happening as of 2020.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/squirrel-tests-positive-bubonic-plague-colorado/story?id=71769840
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/bubonic-plague-triggers-health-alert-in-china-after-herder-is-infected/2020/07/07/bfb8f874-c004-11ea-8908-68a2b9eae9e0_story.html
This has to be the largest scare outside of COVID-19 though within the bacteria world though.