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TWiM #119: Power of one

TWiM #119: Power of one

FromThis Week in Microbiology


TWiM #119: Power of one

FromThis Week in Microbiology

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Length:
63 minutes
Released:
Jan 16, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Michael Schmidt, and Elio Schaechter.
The microbophiles investigate the ratio of bacterial to human cells in our bodies, and how placing solar panels on a bacterium enables it to carry out photosynthesis.
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Links for this episode 

Revised estimates of human and bacterial cells in the body (biorxiv)
Power of ten (Small Things Considered)
Solar-to-chemical production in bacteria (Science)
Letters read on TWiM 119

This episode is sponsored by ASM Grant Writing Institute Online Webinar and 32nd Clinical Virology Symposium
Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by Ronald Jenkees and used with permission.
Send your microbiology questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twim@twiv.tv.
Thumbnail image: Cell structure of a gram positive bacterium. This vector image is completely made by Ali Zifan - Own work; used information from Biology 10e Textbook (chapter 4, Pg: 63) by: Peter Raven, Kenneth Mason, Jonathan Losos, Susan Singer · McGraw-Hill Education.
 
Released:
Jan 16, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

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This Week in Microbiology is a podcast about unseen life on Earth hosted by Vincent Racaniello and friends. Following in the path of his successful shows 'This Week in Virology' (TWiV) and 'This Week in Parasitism' (TWiP), Racaniello and guests produce an informal yet informative conversation about microbes which is accessible to everyone, no matter what their science background.