TWiM describes a potential connection between a bacterial protein that damages DNA and human cancers, and how to synthesize antimiicrobial natural products from reconstructed bacterial genomes of the Middle and Upper Paleolithic.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Petra Levin
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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)
Music used on TWiM is by Ronald Jenkees.
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